对一些在很多学科受过教育(而历史仅是其中一门)的人所从事的许多学术活动来说,思想史是一个很方便的称谓。尤其是典范的思想史学家都是在哲学家、文学评论家和政治学家中间产生的。这种情况在美国以及在英国或欧洲大陆都是确是如此,尽管美国的职业历史学家研究思想 For many academic activities performed by some who are educated in many disciplines (history is but one of them), history of ideas is a convenient term. In particular, exemplary intellectual historians are created among philosophers, literary critics and political scientists. This is indeed the case in the United States and in the United Kingdom or in continental Europe, although American professional historians study ideas