There is not much satisfactory evidence, then, in the standard biographical sources of the eighteenth century, especially in England, for an evolving intellectual biography style.

This, I believe, is an aspect of historical explanation often neglected in intellectual history, but a crucial one for ramping up the explanatory narrative to another level.

Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography was part of that return ‘back to the archive’. It involved four years of serious intellectual labour to make more fruitful sense of his work than in the …

This volume proposes an investigation and a re-examination of intellectual biographies, as both a genre and a methodology, in African studies.

The greatest achievement of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography is that it clearly illuminates the relationship between Marx’s early obsession with Hegelian thought and Marx’s later economic writings.

Melancholia and the Passions, 1643-1650.

This memoir was written at the invitation of Professor Donald Walker as part of a series initiated and carried out by him for the publication of the intellectual biographies of distinguished historians of …