Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The history of ideas as a discipline melds history, philosophy, memetics and ideological dissemination with fashion and cross-fertilisation. The work of Arthur O. Lovejoy and Michel Foucault relates to this theme. See also: idea, and compare sociology of knowledge and intellectual history. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.