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

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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