Intellectual history and the problem of conceptual change: Skinner, Pocock, Koselleck, Blumenberg, Foucault and Rosanvallon

How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth c...

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Main Author: Palti, Elias José (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
Series:John Robert Seeley lectures
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Summary:How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth century to the present, this book aims to prevent an anachronistic understanding of the texts of the past. Palti rejects the idea of conceptual change as a coherent process deriving from one single source. Instead, he offers a convincing explanation of converging developments emanating from three different sources: namely, the Cambridge school, the German school of conceptual history, or Begriffsgeschichte, and French politico-conceptual history. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change also closely examines the temporality of concepts, questioning how and why political languages mutate
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Preface : "I would prefer not to" -- Introduction : From the "history of ideas" to the "new intellectual history," and beyond -- Pocock, Skinner and the "historiographical revolution" -- The republican genealogy and the normative temptation -- The problem of conceptual change -- Conceptual history : its philosophical foundations -- Koselleck's Begriffsgechichte : between social and conceptual history -- Hans Blumenberg and the theory of nonconceptuality -- From structuralism to poststructuralism : Pierre Rosanvallon and the "conceptual history of the political'' -- Foucault's archaeology of knowledge -- The archaeological project and the ignored epistemic mutation -- Behind the structures and the subject : the "event" -- Conclusion. The "new intellectual history" and the dynamics of de-substantialization of concepts -- Epilogue. Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 283 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009461245
DOI:10.1017/9781009461245

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