This review of John Potts's Ideas in Time: The Longue Durée in Intellectual History discusses the advantages and disadvantages of writing intellectual histories that embrace the longue durée. It applauds Potts's concise account of historiographical discussions of continuity and discontinuity in the history of ideas in the last seventy‐five years but laments his failure to discuss the contributions of historians of science and scholarship to the practices of knowledge‐making and to the transmission of ideas. It suggests that the study of discontinuities can also be rich and revealing, and it proposes one approach to understanding the ways in which ideas go out of fashion. It concludes by noting, first, that the models that contemporary historians of ideas adopt also have to do with book‐market opportunities and pressures and, second, that we have work to do to engage our contemporaries and students in whatever form of intellectual history we choose to write.

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知识产权历史证明了龙舌兰酒

约翰波茨的的这个评论在时间思路：隆格绵延思想史讨论编写拥抱智力历史的优点和缺点椅绵延。它赞扬波茨对过去七十五年来思想史的连续性和不连续性的史学讨论的简明记载，但对他未能讨论科学和学术史学家对知识实践和知识传播的贡献表示遗憾。想法。它表明，对不连续性的研究也可以丰富和揭示，它提出了一种理解观念过时的方式。最后，我们指出，首先，当代思想史家所采用的模式也与图书市场的机遇和压力有关；其次，我们需要努力使我们的当代人和学生参与到我们各种形式的知识史中来。选择写。