On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:05 AM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
Thank you for that very nice posting on my question, Judy. I was thinking therewas a punchline to the question as raised by .....? Hegel, Collingwood and Gadamer Forever (but only sometimes:)
I'm missing your point. Our lists have Collingwood in common. This (below) from Wikipedia's list of prominent intellectual historians.
Perhaps you are suggesting that those who write about ideas in the context of their times are not only not philosophers, they are also not historians with a "bent" for philosophy. They are something else, intellectuals perhaps, or members of the clerisy?
David Ritchie, student of H. Stuart Hughes Perry Anderson Mikhail Bakhtin R.G Collingwood Robert Darnton Jacques Barzun David Bates Isaiah Berlin Mark Bevir Marc Bloch Fernand Braudel Ernst Cassirer Merle Curti Norbert Elias Lucien Febvre Michel Foucault Peter Gay Carlo Ginzburg Anthony Grafton Roger Griffin H. Stuart Hughes Russell Jacoby Martin Jay Tony Judt Alan Charles Kors Dominick LaCapra Arthur Lovejoy Louis Menand Perry Miller J. G. A. Pocock Carl Schorske Quentin Skinner Fritz Stern Hayden White Peter Watson Cornel West Richard Wolin