Introduction : interim intellectual history / Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn -- The return of the history of ideas? / Darrin M. McMahon -- Contextualism and criticism in the history of ideas / Peter E. Gordon -- Does intellectual history exist in France? : the chronicle of a renaissance foretold / Antoine Lilti -- On conceptual history / Jan-Werner Müller -- Scandalous relations : supplementing intellectual and cultural history / Judith Surkis -- Imaginary intellectual history / Samuel Moyn -- Has the history of the disciplines had its day? / Suzanne Marchand -- Cosmologies materialized : history of science and history of ideas / John Tresch -- Decentering sex : reflections on Freud, Foucault, and subjectivity in intellectual history / Tracie Matysik -- Can we see ideas? : on evocation, experience, and empathy / Marci Shore -- The space of intellect and the intellect of space / John Randolph -- The international turn in intellectual history / David Armitage -- Global intellectual history and the Indian political / Shruti Kapila -- Intellectual history and the interdisciplinary ideal / Warren Breckman.