Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change / Elías J. Palti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palti, Elías J., author.

Series:

John Robert Seeley lectures

The Seeley Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Learning and scholarship--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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 onwards"-- Provided by publisher

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 May 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009461221

1009461222

9781009461238

1009461230

9781009461245

1009461249