TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rothschild, Emma
A2  - Budde, Gunilla
A2  - Conrad, Sebastian
A2  - Janz, Oliver
T1  - Arcs of Ideas. International History and Intellectual History
T2  - Transnationale Geschichte. Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien
N2  - The internationalization of ideas is an old idyll, and an old anxiety. “The invasion of ideas has followed on from the invasion of the barbarians”, the aged François-René de Chateaubriand wrote in 1841, in his last reflections on the new “universal society” which was no more than a confusion of needs and images”: “when steam power will have been perfected, when, together with the telegraph and the railways, it will have made distances disappear, there will not only be commodities which travel, but also ideas which will have recovered the use of their wings”. This universe of fluttering and floating ideas is at first sight exhilarating for intellectual history. A world in which ideas soar across the frontiers of distance and nationality is also a world full of ideas, and a world of opportunity for intellectual history. But all is not, I fear, as encouraging as it appears. The international or transnational turn which is such a powerful preoccupation of present historical scholarship may even, in the end, be subversive of the old enterprise that Marx described disobligingly in 1847 as “sacred history – the history of ideas”.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2279
UR  - http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/2011-3/Rothschild_2010.pdf
SP  - 217
EP  - 226
PB  - Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -