REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY RICHARD WHATMORE “WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY?” (MOSCOW, 2023)

The paper examines the book translated into Russian by the British historian Richard Whatmore, a specialist in intellectual history, published in 2023. Intellectual history can be defined as a special direction in historical science focused on the study of ideas, concepts, doctrines, theories and other products of people's intellectual activity, converted into text or any other form. This direction allows us to analyze the influence of historical epochs and circumstances on the development of thoughts and decisions of key historical figures, thinkers, people who determine the fate of mankind. Exploring the ideas and concepts set out in historical texts and documents, intellectual history finds an answer to many different questions. The book addresses the issues of defining the boundaries of intellectual history, the history of the emergence of the discipline and its methodology. The work focuses on the approaches of the so-called Cambridge school of intellectual history, although Begriffsgeschichte is also mentioned. The book may be of interest to both those who have just began to study intellectual history and specialists in this field of research.