Intellectual history and the problem of conceptual change : Skinner, Pocock, Koselleck, Blumenberg, Foucault, and Rosanvallon / Elías José Palti, University of Buenos Aires.

"How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? This ambitious study reassesses the main tenets of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge from the 17th century...

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Main Author: Palti, Elías José (Author)
Other title:Skinner, Pocock, Koselleck, Blumenberg, Foucault, and Rosanvallon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:John Robert Seeley lectures.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.