The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas

The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues. Pushing global intellectual history forward, it uses methodological innovations in the history of concepts, gender history, imperial history, and history of normativity, many of which have emerged out of intellectual history in recent years, and it especially foregrounds the role of field theory for delimiting objects of study but also in studying transnational history and migration of persons and ideas.The chapters also explore how intellectual history crosses the study of particular domains: law, politics, economy, science, life sciences, social and human sciences, book history, literature, and emotions.

About the Author

Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute, a Professor of History at New York University, and a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. His books include The Invention of Prehistory (2024), Transparency in Postwar France (2017), The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe (with Todd Meyers, 2018), and Power and Time (coedited with Natasha Wheatley and Dan Edelstein, 2020).

Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Her books include The French Writers’ War (2014), The Sociology of Literature (2023), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (2018), and Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020). She coedited Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2020).