History of concepts

Slagmark. Tidsskrift for Idehistorie, 48 (Forar 2007)

by Jani Marjanen

‘Undermining methodological nationalism: Histoire croisée of concepts as transnational history’

by Jani Marjanen

Vom "aufgesteiften Leichnam des Vitruv" und "durchaus neuen Principien". Karl Friedrich Schinkel und die Nationalisierung des Philisters im Architekturdiskurs um 1800

by Felix Saure

In: Georg Stanitzek, Till Dembeck und Remigius Bunia (Eds.): Philister. Problemgeschichte einer Sozialfigur der neueren deutschen Literatur. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2011. p. 311-336.

Federalismo. Perú

by Alex Loayza Pérez

Coautor con Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. En: Javier Fernández Sebastián (Dir). Diccionario político y social del mundo Iberoamericano. La era de las revoluciones, 1750-1850. Vol. 1. Madrid: Fundación Carolina/ Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales/ Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009.

Race and Genealogy : Buffon and the Formation of the Concept of “Race

by Claude-Olivier Doron

Draft to be published in Humana.Mente, 22, Special Issue “Making sense of Gender, Sex, Race and the Family”, July 2012

This article analyses the conditions of formation of the concept of “race” in natural history in the middle of the... more This article analyses the conditions of formation of the concept of “race” in natural history in the middle of the XVIIIth century. Relying on the method of historical epistemology to avoid some of the aporia raised by the traditional historiography of “racism”, it focuses on the specifities of the concept of “race” in contrast to others (“variety”, “species”…) and tries to answer the following questions: to what extent the concept of “race” was integrated in natural history’s discourses before the middle of the XVIIIth century? To which kind of concepts and problems was it linked and to which style of reasoning did it pertain? To which conditions could it enter natural history and develop in it? The article answers that “race” pertained to a genealogical style of reasoning which was largely extraneous to natural history before the middle of the XVIIIth century. Natural history was rather dominated by another style of reasoning, logical and classificatory, which principles and concepts defined strong obstacles to the development of a concept of “race”. To understand how the concept of “race” developed in natural history, one has to understand how the genealogical style of reasoning entered natural history and modified the very principles of classification that organized it. I try to establish that it is through Buffon and some of the main authors of the “monogenist” tradition that the most fundamental conditions for the integration of a genealogical style of reasoning and the development of a concept of “race” are met. To put it clearly, in contrast to many scholars’ analysis and following some intuitions of P.R Sloan, I argue that Buffon in particular, and monogenism in general, were decisive in the integration and development of the concept of “race” in natural history.

Quelle république pour la révolution?. Souveraineté, loi et liberté au Rio de la Plata, 1810-1812

by Gabriel Entin

Bien Común (Borrador del rastreo de un concepto)

by Diana Monroy-García

Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Bien Común" Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Bien Común"

Justicia (Borrador del rastreo de un concepto)

by Diana Monroy-García

Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Justicia" Ejercicio de rastreo en los cambios del concepto "Justicia"

Centralité et modificabilité. Trois moments dans l’histoire de la notion de milieu

by Ferhat Taylan

Dictionnaire des concepts nomades des sciences humaines

by Moullier Igor

Restitution of Lost Property in the Tannaitic and Amoraic Halakhah: A Preliminary Philosophical Study of the Forming of a Conception

by Ariel Furstenberg

Quelle république pour la révolution?-Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos

by Gabriel Entin

De la república desincorporada a la república representada. El lenguaje republicano durante la revolución del Río de la Plata.

by Gabriel Entin

Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns

by Anna Borghi

PHDabstract-résumésdethèse

by Claude-Olivier Doron

This document includes english and french abstracts of my PhD Thesis on 'Races and degeneration. The emergence on the... more This document includes english and french abstracts of my PhD Thesis on 'Races and degeneration. The emergence on the knowledge on the abnormals', a detailed description of the different chapters (in french) and of its main results (in french) and its table of contents.

"La formation du concept de perversion au XIXe siècle en France"

by Claude-Olivier Doron

This article has been published in L'information psychiatrique, vol. 88, n°1, janv. 2012, pp. 39-49

"The formation of the concept of mental perversion in the 19th century in France." In this article, we... more "The formation of the concept of mental perversion in the 19th century in France." In this article, we assess the emergence
of the psychiatric concept of “perversion” in the 19th century. We focus on two points. First, despite its common usage,
the psychiatric concept of perversion should not be based on the theologico-moral notion of “perverse” but from a medical
notion of “perversion”, which refers to the alteration of humours and then the qualitative alterations of instincts.We analyse
how the clinical knowledge of the various qualitative deviations of instincts has developed within psychiatric knowledge.
Second, we show that, in contrast, the concept of “perversion” has offered the psychiatrists a way of getting inside the
medicolegal field and to deal with the juridico-moral concept of “perversity”, a concept that became decisive in penal
practices after 1820.We evaluate this opposition between “perversity” and “perversion” and show how the “constitutional
pervert” eventually emerged in the 1860s.

Концепт «глава литературы» в русской критике 1830–1860-х годов

by Alexey Vdovin

"The West": A Conceptual Exploration

by Riccardo Bavaj

European History Online / Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2011-11-21

This article explores the transformation of the directional concept "the west" into the socio-political... more This article explores the transformation of the directional concept "the west" into the socio-political concept "the West". From the early 19th century onward, the concept of the West became temporalized and politicized. It became a concept of the future ("Zukunftsbegriff"), acquired a polemical thrust through the polarized opposition to antonyms such as "Russia", "the East", and "the Orient", and was deployed as a tool for forging national identities. The gestation of "the West" went hand-in-hand with the gradual substitution of an east-west divide for the north-south divide that had dominated European mental maps for centuries.

Conceptual Structures and Processes In Creative Thought

by Jyotsna Vaid

---, 'Examining the concept of virtú in Machiavelli's Prince: new perspectives", Hayo-Haya: A Young Forum for History, vol. 2 (Winter 2003): 26-43 [in Hebrew].

by Arie Dubnov

Juvenilia: Once upon a time a tiny group of dedicated history graduate students at the Hebrew U. decided to launch a history journal, edited by students that will publish works of students and historians-to-be. It was modeled after student-edited journals like the Harvard Law Review. Not surprisingly, we never really achieved the goal of having the same "impact-factor," to use the nasty term used by the publish-or-perish technicians who call themselves academics, but there were some interesting new voices nonetheless.

My contribution came in the form of this rough, sketchy and unripe essay, which attempts to look at the way Machiavelli re-defined the concept of virtú (virtue) in his Prince. Unknowingly, I was applying a "method" which I later learned is called ”Begriffsgeschichte” (History of concepts). I don't think Quentin Skinner would agree, nor would Leo Struass. But for the Hebrew speakers among you, it is a fun read....

מאמר זה בוחן את שימושיו של מקיאוולי במונח 'וירטו' ב'הנסיך' תוך הצגת הטענה כי החיבור טומן בחובו מהפך שקט שבמסגרתו נוצק... more מאמר זה בוחן את שימושיו של מקיאוולי במונח 'וירטו' ב'הנסיך' תוך הצגת הטענה כי החיבור טומן בחובו מהפך שקט שבמסגרתו נוצק במושג זה תוכן חדש, השונה באופן רדיקלי מן המובנים המסורתיים שניתנו לו. ממושג בעל משמעות אתית במהותו הופך מקיאוולי את מושג ה'וירטו' למושג המציין כושר או טכניקה נייטרלית מבחינה מוסרית. בסיכום המאמר נבחנות ההשלכות הפסיכולוגיות מרחיקות הלכת של 'מהפכה מקיאוולית' זו, תוך בחינת השפעתה על הוגים בימינו.