The history of political and social concepts : a critical introduction / Melvin Richter
- Bib ID:
- 712151
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Richter, Melvin, 1921-
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- vii, 204 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195088263 (acid-free paper)
- Summary:
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Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts. Applied to France as well as Germany, their work has set new standards for the historical study of political and social language, Begriffsgeschichte.
In The History of Political and Social Concepts, Melvin Richter analyzes the theories which have generated conceptual history, and their reinterpretation of key concepts such as Max Weber's three types of legitimate Herrschaft, and that of civilite in France. What is it that we know when we learn the history of a concept? What difference does it make that we know it? After assessing the programs and achievements of Begriffsgeschichte, the author argues the need for an analogous project to chart the careers of political and social concepts used in English-speaking societies. Addressed not only to historians of political and social thought, this work will interest students and scholars of political culture, social historians, and historians of ideas, historiography, law, language, and rhetoric.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Charting the History of Political and Social Concepts
- 2. The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Relating Political and Social Concepts to Structural Change
- 3. The History of the Concept of Herrschaft in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
- 4. The Place of Concepts in the History of Mentalites: The Handbuch of French Political and Social Concepts
- 5. Innovation and Critique in the Handbuch
- 6. Pocock, Skinner, and Begriffsgeschichte
- 7. "By the Sufferance of Wise Men": A Call for a History of Political and Social Concepts in English
- Appendix A: Concepts Treated in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
- Appendix B: Concepts Treated in the Handbuch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-192) and index.
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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