The History of Ideas at 80

The inceptions of intellectual movements are customarily marked by the publication of manifestoes, articles, or books, by the convening of conferences, salons, or the establishment of "programs," academic chairs, and such. In its modern incarnation, the History of Ideas can, however, be dated from an informal lunch meeting of three colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University-the philosophers Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas and the literary historian Gilbert Chinardwhich led to the formation of a "club." (There was something of a local tradition for this slightly ironic use of the term club, since, with his arrival in Baltimore in 1879, Charles S. Peirce had reconstituted his "Metaphysical Club," the informal meetings that had flourished in Cambridge during the 1860s and are often seen as the "seedbed of American pragmatism.") The first meeting of the History of Ideas Club was duly convened on January 24, 1923. To celebrate the eightieth anniversary of its birthday a few remarks about the history of the history of ideas may be in order.*

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