Methods and limits
The map reports one lecture course, Marci Shore's European Intellectual History since Nietzsche. This page says how it was built, what its marks mean, and where it has not been checked.
How it was made
Each lecture's captions were broken into claims, each tied to a timestamp and rewritten in our own words.
Connections between claims were recorded with the passage that supports them, then checked again against the transcript.
Names, dates and titles were checked against outside sources. Where the lecture differs from the record, the timeline gives the recorded fact.
What the marks mean
Reproduce words Shore quotes in the lecture. They follow her wording, which can differ from published translations.
A link Shore does not state outright.
A scholar who reads the point differently. Named so a reader knows the reading exists; no verdict on the lecture.
The passage in the thinker's own work, by section or paragraph number so any edition will do.
A plain-language line above a dense claim, for readers new to the subject. The checked claim stays beneath it; the plain line is a paraphrase, not a quotation. Underlined terms show their definition on hover.
A comparison she draws between two views without saying one thinker took it from the other.
A note under some claims giving the thinker's own words where they differ from the lecture's account. The claim itself still reports the lecture.
What is ours, not Shore's
She returns to these themes and people; the arrangement is our reading.
The nine questions are themes of the course. The routes through them, their stages and their summaries are ours.
The rows on the network are our grouping.
The year at which each thinker enters the timeline is our placement.
The pen notes in the margins of the timeline are ours.
Definitions are in our words, drawn from how the lectures use each term.
What was checked, and what was not
All 693 claims.
Only in part. Passages were read in more than twenty authors, among them Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault and Havel.
Most claims about Central and East European thinkers rest on the lecture alone. So do a few quotations Shore reads aloud. The reading list and handouts are on the course page at Yale Online.
Known limits
A spoken survey is full of hedges; thirty words are not. Some claims still read a shade firmer than the lecture.
Who is included, what each thinker is said to hold, and who is set against whom follow Shore's presentation. Specialists would qualify much of it.
The source captions are automatic and garble names.
Image credits
Portraits come from Wikimedia Commons and are public domain or under a Creative Commons license.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) · Witkacy Autoportret 1924.jpg · Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (self-portrait), 1924 · Public domain
Theodor Adorno · Theodor W. Adorno.jpg · Jeremy J. Shapiro, 1964 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Guillaume Apollinaire · Guillaume Apollinaire 1914.jpg · Unknown author, 1914 · Public domain
Hannah Arendt · Hannah Arendt 1975 (cropped).jpg · Unknown author, 1975 · Public domain
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · Nicolas de Largillière - Portrait de Voltaire (1694-1778) en 1718 - P208 - musée Carnavalet - 5 (cropped).jpg · Nicolas de Largillière, 1718 · CC0
Charles Baudelaire · Baudelaire crop.jpg · Unknown author (crop by Notwist) · Public domain
Zygmunt Bauman · Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg · Forumlitfest, 2013 · CC BY 3.0
Simone de Beauvoir · Simone de Beauvoir2.png · Moshe Milner, 1967 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Václav Benda · Vaclav Benda 1995 crop 2.jpg · Janmartinek, 1995 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Walter Benjamin · Walter Benjamin vers 1928.jpg · Unknown author, 1928 · Public domain
Henri Bergson · Henri Bergson 02.jpg · Henri Manuel · Public domain
Isaiah Berlin · IsaiahBerlin1983.jpg · Rob C. Croes (Anefo), 1983 · CC0
André Breton · André Breton - photo Henri Manuel.jpg · Henri Manuel, 1927 · Public domain
Stanisław Brzozowski · PL Stanisław Brzozowski - Legenda Młodej Polski p0004aa.jpg · Jan Bukowski, 1910 · Public domain
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) · Byron 1813 by Phillips.jpg · Thomas Phillips, 1813 · Public domain
Georg Cantor · Georg Cantor2.jpg · Unknown author, c. 1900 · Public domain
Paul Celan · Paul Celan (1938).jpg · Unknown author, 1938 · Public domain
Jacques Derrida · Jaques Derrida (cropped).jpg · Gisela Giardino · CC BY-SA 2.0
René Descartes · Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpg · After Frans Hals, 1649 · Public domain
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Vasily Perov - Портрет Ф.М.Достоевского - Google Art Project.jpg · Vasily Perov, 1872 · Public domain
Friedrich Engels · Friedrich Engels portrait (cropped).jpg · William Hall, 1877 · Public domain
Johann Gottlieb Fichte · Johann Gottlieb Fichte by Friedrich Bury.jpg · Albrecht Fürchtegott Schultheiß, after Friedrich Bury · Public domain
Michel Foucault · Michel Foucault 1974 Brasil.jpg · Unknown author, 1974 · Public domain
Sigmund Freud · Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt (cropped).jpg · Max Halberstadt, c. 1921 · Public domain
Clifford Geertz · Photo of Clifford Geertz on dust jacket of The Interpretation of Cultures.jpg · Unknown author, 1973 · Public domain
René Girard · René Girard.jpg · Vicq, 2007 · Public domain
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg · Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828 · Public domain
Witold Gombrowicz · Witold Gombrowicz by Bohdan Paczowski - detail.jpg · Bohdan Paczowski · Public domain
Robert Hamerton-Kelly · Robert Hamerton-Kelly.jpg · Esprqii, 2007 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Václav Havel · Václav Havel cut out.jpg · Ondřej Sláma, 2009 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · Jakob Schlesinger - Hegel 1831.jpg · Jakob Schlesinger, 1831 · Public domain
Martin Heidegger · Heidegger 2 (1960).jpg · Willy Pragher, 1960 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Johann Gottfried Herder · Johann Gottfried Herder.jpg · Unknown artist · Public domain
Alexander Herzen · Herzen ge.png · Nikolai Ge · Public domain
Thomas Hobbes · Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg · John Michael Wright · Public domain
Max Horkheimer · AdornoHorkheimerHabermasbyJeremyJShapiro2.png · Jeremy J. Shapiro (detail), 1964 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Edmund Husserl · Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg · Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), 1910s · Public domain
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Roman Jakobson · Roman Jakobson.jpg · Philweb Bibliographical Archive · CC BY 3.0
Karl Jaspers · Karl Jaspers 1946.jpg · Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), 1946 · Public domain
Franz Kafka · Kafka1906 cropped.jpg · Atelier Jacobi, c. 1906 · Public domain
Immanuel Kant · Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2.jpg · Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768 · Public domain
Velimir Khlebnikov · Chlebnikow.jpg · Unknown author · Public domain
Arthur Koestler · Arthur Koestler (1969).jpg · Eric Koch (Anefo), 1969 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alexandre Kojève · Alexandre Kojève.jpg · Unknown photographer · Public domain
Karel Kosík · KarelKosik.jpg · František Brikcius · CC BY 3.0
Leszek Kołakowski · Leszek Kołakowski Anefo.jpg · Anefo · CC0
Aleksei Kruchenykh · Kruchenykh.jpg · Unknown author · Public domain
Milan Kundera · Milan Kundera redux.jpg · Elisa Cabot, 2013 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin · Vladimir Lenin in July 1920 by Pavel Zhukov.jpg · Pavel Zhukov, 1920 · Public domain
Emmanuel Levinas · Emmanuel Levinas.jpg · Bracha L. Ettinger, 1991 · CC BY-SA 2.5
John Locke · JohnLocke.png · Godfrey Kneller, 1697 · Public domain
Georg Lukács · Lukács György.jpg · Horst Sturm (Bundesarchiv), 1952 · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Rosa Luxemburg · Rosa Luxemburg.jpg · Unknown author, 1910s · Public domain
Jean-François Lyotard · Jean-Francois Lyotard cropped.jpg · Bracha L. Ettinger · CC BY-SA 2.0
Claude Lévi-Strauss · Levi-strauss 260 (cropped2).jpg · UNESCO/Michel Ravassard, 2005 · CC BY 3.0
Herbert Marcuse · Herbert Marcuse in Newton, Massachusetts 1955.jpeg · Marcuse family (Harold Marcuse), 1955 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti · FilippoTommasoMarinetti.jpg · Unknown author, c. 1924 · Public domain
Mihailo Marković · MihailoPicture.jpg · Philosopher nis, 1994 · Public domain
Karl Marx · Karl Marx 001 restored.jpg · John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1875 · Public domain
Vladimir Mayakovsky · Majakovszkij.jpg · Unidentified photographer, c. 1920 · Public domain
Moses Mendelssohn · Moses Mendelson P7160073.JPG · After Anton Graff, 1771 · Public domain
Adam Mickiewicz · Adam Mickiewicz według dagerotypu paryskiego z 1842 roku.jpg · Unknown author, c. 1842 · Public domain
Czesław Miłosz · Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap.tif · Artur Pawłowski, 1999 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Friedrich Nietzsche · Nietzsche187a.jpg · Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, c. 1875 · Public domain
Jan Patočka · Patocka 1971.jpg · Jindřich Přibík, 1971 · CC BY 3.0
Wilhelm Reich · Wilhelm Reich.jpg · Ludwig Gutmann · Public domain
Maximilien Robespierre · Robespierre.jpg · Unidentified painter, c. 1790 · CC0
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (painted portrait).jpg · Maurice Quentin de La Tour · Public domain
Bertrand Russell · Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png · Photographer not identified · Public domain
Jean-Paul Sartre · Jean Paul Sartre 1967.jpg · T1980 (Wikimedia Commons), 1967 · CC BY 3.0
Ferdinand de Saussure · Ferdinand de Saussure by Jullien Restored.png · F. Jullien, Geneva; restored, before 1913 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lev Shestov · Si Léon Chestov noong 1927.jpg · Unknown author, 1927 · Public domain
Viktor Shklovsky · Viktor Shklovsky.jpg · Unknown author · Public domain
Herbert Spencer · Herbert Spencer.jpg · Unknown · Public domain
Edith Stein · Edith Stein (ca. 1938-1939).jpg · Unknown author, c. 1938 · Public domain
Leon Trotsky · Лев Давидович Троцкий.jpg · Unknown author, early 1920s · Public domain
Tristan Tzara · Tristan Tzara.jpg · Unknown; retouched by Rlevente, 1915 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ludvík Vaculík · Ludvík Vaculík, 2010, cut.jpg · Mercy (Wikimedia Commons), 2010 · CC BY 3.0
Richard Wagner · RichardWagner.jpg · Franz Hanfstaengl, 1871 · Public domain
Max Weber · Max Weber in 1918.png · Ernst Gottmann, 1918 · Public domain
Ludwik Zamenhof · Zamenhof portreto.jpg · Unknown author, c. 1895 · Public domain
Yevgeny Zamyatin · Zamjatin.jpg · Unknown author · Public domain