Introduction what was the history of ideas? -- 1. Prelue: the new phiosophy of Victor Cousin -- 2. Eclecticism in retrospect -- 3. The light of philosophy reborn -- 4. The way of ideas and the way of words -- 5. The new eclecticism -- 6. The history of literature -- 7. The history of science -- 8. Human sciences -- 9. The history of philosophy -- 10. After the new histories
