Understanding thought-becoming-epoch requires more than intellectual history
Evidence
To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than just intellectual history. (Heideman 2014) Hayek’s ambition-to rebuild a modernized Neoliberalism on ethical foundations other than simple individualism-would go nowhere in the MPS . — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 22
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how material/institutional conditions bridge ideas and policy outcomes, echoing the law-merchant argument that institutions mediate between ideas and practice. — connects to: Fidelity to systematic thought in a fragmented epoch requires deliberate unsystematicity — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 110; Historical synthesis by a single mind reveals deep connections across eras — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 31; Fair philosophical comparison requires correlating historical epochs, not mixing eras — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Historical synthesis by a single mind reveals deep connections across eras
#expands(0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 31 - Systematizing the unsystematic can force a historical way of thinking
#expands(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 894 - Fair philosophical comparison requires correlating historical epochs, not mixing eras
#qualifies(0.72) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440