Dictionary of the History of Ideas

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas is a four-volume reference work on intellectual history published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1973.[1] Philip P. Wiener was its editor-in-chief.[1] Associate editors included Isaiah Berlin, Salomon Bochner, and Ernest Nagel,[1] It contains more than 300 articles written by 254 contributors, organized into seven categories.[1] Contributors included Berlin, Boas, Herbert Butterfield, Merle Curti, Mircea Eliade, Joan Kelly Gadol, Sidney Hook, Milton Konvitz, Leonard Kreiger, Judith Shklar, Peter N. Stearns, and René Wellek.[2]

An updated edition (the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas), edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, was published in 2004.[3] The 2004 edition has 700 articles across six volumes.[3] Scribner made the 1973 edition available for free online after the new edition was published.[4]

Reception

Writing in the Journal of the History of Ideas, F.E.L. Priestley described the book as "monumental in the sense that it establishes, as a surveyor's monuments do, the boundaries and the main points of reference in a large map of intellectual territory."[1]

Library Journal praised the 2004 edition for having a broader scope than its Eurocentric and male-focused predecessor.[3] A review in Reference & User Services Quarterly concluded, "No other reference work offers the same breadth of coverage and accessibility."[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Priestley, F. E. L. (1974). "Mapping the World of Ideas" [Review of "Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas," by P. P. Wiener]. Journal of the History of Ideas, 35(3), 527–537. https://doi.org/10.2307/2708800
  2. ^ (2003). Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas. Journal of the History of Ideas 64(3), 511. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2003.0036.
  3. ^ a b c Perkins, Kelli. “New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.” Library Journal 130, no. 6 (2005): 124. EBSCOhost.
  4. ^ Black, Ken. 2005. “New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Book).” Booklist 101 (18): 1701–2. EBSCOhost.
  5. ^ Salem, Joseph A. Reference & User Services Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2005): 86–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20864459.
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