Intellectual and idea history is one part of wider social transformation studies

Evidence

If intellectuals and ideas are to be taken seriously, this does not imply adherence to single lines of causality, or disregard of historical structures and institutions. A conceptual history (as promoted by Reinhart Koselleck) traces and reconstructs epistemological developments as social history, the result of larger historical developments, and arguably even more important, social struggles that require and give rise to new meanings. The study of intellectuals and ideas, and the study of the ways they are organized, are a necessary part of the wider study of social transformation; no more, no less. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 27

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines conceptual history (Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte) as reconstructing meaning-changes driven by social struggles.
• XREF: Relates to the methodology question of whether the MPS network caused policy shifts or merely channeled them. — connects to: Understanding thought-becoming-epoch requires more than intellectual history — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 22; Semantic history is an aspect of cultural history. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599

Broader Connections

• Understanding thought-becoming-epoch requires more than intellectual history #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 22
• Semantic history is an aspect of cultural history. #exemplifies (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599