history of ideas
Noun
Meaning
history of ideas (countable and uncountable, plural histories of ideas)
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Synonym: intellectual history
Examples
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.