Tagged: conceptual history
Hugo Bonin – A few quick thoughts regarding how different theoretical approaches in intellectual history can frame our empirical work, as exemplified by the trending topic of “representative democracy.”
Koselleck 100
Jan Ifversen – Darkness constitutes a paradigm opposed to enlightenment. While conceptual history is an approach suited to understand progressive semantic mastery, Reinhart Koselleck – although hesitatingly and implicitly – also developed an approach suited to situations where concepts are beyond reach and leave everyone groping in the dark. This entry traces Koselleck’s theory of the incomprehensible.
Koselleck 100
Giuseppe Duso – There are times when an image can be particularly poignant for communicating a vision of politics because it not only “speaks” to the observer, but also almost seems to express a theoretical argument.
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