Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of History of Ideas

This list was compiled from the following sources, which should be consulted for further information on each topic:

• History of Ideas Encyclopedia (archive)
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas

The list originally contained 340, now only 10 remain (97.05% done).

The list

1. Mathematics in cultural history
2. Metaphysical imagination
3. Oriental ideas in American thought
4. Ethics of peace
5. Perfectibility of man
6. Periodization in literary history
7. Prophecy in the Middle Ages
8. Uniformitarianism and catastrophism
9. Uniformitarianism in linguistics
10. Social attitudes towards women

No single source was used in toto.

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1. Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts
2. Alienation in Christian Theology
3. Alienation in Hegel and Marx
4. Allegory in literary history
5. Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle
6. Analogy in Early Greek Thought
7. Analogy in Patristic and Medieval Thought
8. Analogy of the Body Politic
9. Ancients and Moderns in the Eighteenth Century
10. Anthropomorphism in science
11. Antinomy of pure reason
12. Appearance and reality
13. Art and play
14. Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
15. Atomism in the Seventeenth Century
16. Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
17. Theories of Beauty Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
18. Biological Conceptions in Antiquity
19. Biological Homologies and Analogies
20. Causation in history
21. Causation in Islamic thought
22. Causation in the Seventeenth Century
23. Causation in the Seventeenth Century, Final Causes
24. Certainty in Seventeenth- Century Thought
25. Certainty Since the Seventeenth Century
26. Chance images
27. China in Western Thought and Culture
28. Christianity in History
29. Church as an Institution
30. Continuity and Discontinuity in Nature and Knowledge
31. Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850
32. Cosmology Since 1850
33. Cultural development in antiquity
34. Culture and Civilization in Modern Times
35. Determinism in Theology: Predestination
36. Epicureanism and free will
37. Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages
38. Form in the History of Aesthetics
39. Fortune, Fate, and Chance
40. Freedom of Speech in Antiquity
41. Genius from the Renaissance to 1770
42. Genius: Individualism in Art and Artists
43. Idea of God from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
44. Idea of God, 1400-1800
45. Idea of God Since 1800
46. Concept of Gothic
47. Happiness and Pleasure
48. Harmony or Rapture in Music
49. Heresy in the Middle Ages
50. Heresy, Renaissance and Later
51. Historical and dialectical materialism
52. The Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek Historiography
53. Humanism in Italy
54. Ideal in Philosophy from the Renaissance to 1780
55. Impiety in the Classical World
56. Imprinting and Learning Early in Life
57. Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Lamarckian)
58. Inheritance Through Pangenesis
59. Irrationalism in the History of Philosophy
60. Islamic Conception of Intellectual Life
61. Ancient Greek Ideas of Law
62. Ancient Roman Ideas of Law
63. Natural Law and Natural Rights
64. Linguistic Theories in British Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
65. Literature and Its Cognates
66. Man-Machine from the Greeks to the Computer
67. Marxist Revisionism: from Bernstein to Modern Forms
68. Relativity of Standards of Mathematical Rigor
69. Changing Concepts of Matter from Antiquity to Newton
70. Metaphor in religious discourse
71. Motif in Literature: the Faust Theme
72. Literary Attitudes Toward Mountains
73. Music and Science
74. Music as a Demonic Art
75. Music as a Divine Art
76. Myth in Antiquity
77. Myth in Biblical Times
78. Myth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
79. Myth in English Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
80. Myth in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
81. Myth in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
82. Medieval and Renaissance Ideas of Nation
83. Newton and the Method of Analysis
84. Newton's Opticks and Eighteenth-Century Imagination
85. Rhetoric and Literary Theory in Platonism
86. Platonism in Philosophy and Poetry
87. Platonism Since the Enlightenment
88. Poetry and Poetics from Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
89. Positivism in Europe to 1900
90. Positivism in Latin America
91. Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiricism)
92. Pre-Platonic Conceptions of Human Nature
93. Primitivism in the Eighteenth Century
94. Probability: Objective Theory
95. Progress in Classical Antiquity
96. Progress in the Modern Era
97. Psychological Ideas in Antiquity
98. Psychological Schools in European Thought
99. Psychological Theories in American Thought
100. Pythagorean Doctrines to 300 B.C.
101. Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe
102. Rationality Among the Greeks and Romans
103. Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century
104. Religious Enlightenment in American Thought
105. Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man
106. Renaissance literature and historiography
107. Rhetoric after Plato
108. Right and good
109. Romanticism (Ca. 1780-Ca. 1830)
110. Romanticism in Political Thought
111. Romanticism in Post-Kantian Philosophy
112. Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment
113. Skepticism in Antiquity
114. Skepticism in Modern Thought
115. Social Democracy in Germany and Revisionism
116. Formal Theories of Social Welfare
117. Socialism from Antiquity to Marx
118. Sublime in External Nature
119. Taste in the History of Aesthetics from the Renaissance to 1770
120. Temperance (so-Phrosyne-) and the Canon of the Cardinal Virtues
121. Unity of Science from Plato to Kant
122. Virtù in and Since the Renaissance
123. War and Militarism