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"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"--
List of contents
Introduction: From the 'history of ideas' to the 'new intellectual history,' and beyond; 1. Pocock, Skinner and the 'historiographical revolution'; 2. The Republican genealogy and the normative temptation; 3. The problem of conceptual change; 4. Conceptual history: its philosophical foundations; 5. Koselleck's Begriffsgechichte: between social and conceptual history; 6. Hans Blumenberg and the theory of nonconceptuality; 7. From structuralism to poststructuralism: Pierre Rosanvallon and the 'conceptual history of the political'; 8. Foucault's archaeology of knowledge; 9. The archaeological project and the ignored epistemic mutation; 10. Behind the structures and the subject: the 'event'; Conclusion: the 'new intellectual history' and the dynamics of de-substantialization of concepts.
About the author
Elías José Palti is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Quilmes, and a principal researcher at Argentina's National Research Commission (CONICET). Palti has published widely in the field of intellectual history across six different languages. His previous publications include An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017).
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.
Foreword
This study reassesses the main concepts of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge.
