Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/CHOC.2018.130105
Neil Foxlee
This article examines how politicians have applied evaluative-descriptive terms as rhetorical levers to a pivotal basic concept, illustrating the broader rhetorical strategy of dissociation identified by Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. It focuses on political debates around capitalism that took place in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century British politics, including the period following the financial crisis of 2008. Drawing on data from the Enhanced Hansard Corpus and Hansard Online, together with other contemporary texts, it combines quantitative and qualitative analyses using a corpus-based approach to identify salient items that are then placed in their discursive and sociopolitical contexts. More generally, the article seeks to bridge part of the gap between Koselleckian Begriff sgeschichte and Quentin Skinner’s rhetorical approach by applying what is in effect a historical-pragmatic approach to the history of political concepts.
{"title":"Pivots and Levers","authors":"Neil Foxlee","doi":"10.3167/CHOC.2018.130105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CHOC.2018.130105","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how politicians have applied evaluative-descriptive\u0000terms as rhetorical levers to a pivotal basic concept, illustrating the broader\u0000rhetorical strategy of dissociation identified by Chaim Perelman and Lucie\u0000Olbrechts-Tyteca. It focuses on political debates around capitalism that\u0000took place in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century British politics,\u0000including the period following the financial crisis of 2008. Drawing\u0000on data from the Enhanced Hansard Corpus and Hansard Online, together\u0000with other contemporary texts, it combines quantitative and qualitative\u0000analyses using a corpus-based approach to identify salient items that are\u0000then placed in their discursive and sociopolitical contexts. More generally,\u0000the article seeks to bridge part of the gap between Koselleckian Begriff sgeschichte\u0000and Quentin Skinner’s rhetorical approach by applying what is in\u0000effect a historical-pragmatic approach to the history of political concepts.","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74026677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/choc.2018.130106
J. Terrier
Th is article off ers a history of pluralism as a term in scholarly discourse. It presents the existing research on the question and off ers a contribution on the basis of an inclusive approach that is not limited to one discipline (philosophy or political science) or to one linguistic area. In particular, it references the rich German debate and the important French intellectual developments. Moreover, it considers not only the proponents but also the adversaries of pluralism. Th ere are two recurring elements in the debates on political pluralism. One is the existence, even among the critics of pluralism, of a recognition of plurality at some level. Th e other is the advocacy, even by authors who strongly emphasize confl ict and dissent, of some necessary unity.
{"title":"Observations on the Semantic Trajectory of Pluralism in Scholarly Discourse","authors":"J. Terrier","doi":"10.3167/choc.2018.130106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2018.130106","url":null,"abstract":"Th is article off ers a history of pluralism as a term in scholarly discourse.\u0000It presents the existing research on the question and off ers a contribution\u0000on the basis of an inclusive approach that is not limited to one discipline\u0000(philosophy or political science) or to one linguistic area. In particular, it\u0000references the rich German debate and the important French intellectual\u0000developments. Moreover, it considers not only the proponents but also the\u0000adversaries of pluralism. Th ere are two recurring elements in the debates\u0000on political pluralism. One is the existence, even among the critics of pluralism,\u0000of a recognition of plurality at some level. Th e other is the advocacy,\u0000even by authors who strongly emphasize confl ict and dissent, of some necessary\u0000unity.","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88734503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/choc.2018.130102
Ruth Hemstad
In the historiography describing the pan-Scandinavian movement that started gaining ground in the late 1830s, Scandinavianism has been widely employed as a historical category, usually without any discussion regarding the actual emergence of the concept itself. This article discusses when and why Scandinavianism entered into political language as a powerful new concept capable of setting a future-oriented agenda. After analyzing digitized newspaper material and other relevant publications in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and after using a combination of distant and close reading, it concludes that Scandinavianism as a neologism only appeared as late as 1843. This article aims to contribute to a conceptual transnational history of Scandinavianism by examining its emergence, reception, and discursive context in the early 1840s.
{"title":"Scandinavianism","authors":"Ruth Hemstad","doi":"10.3167/choc.2018.130102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2018.130102","url":null,"abstract":"In the historiography describing the pan-Scandinavian movement that\u0000started gaining ground in the late 1830s, Scandinavianism has been widely\u0000employed as a historical category, usually without any discussion regarding\u0000the actual emergence of the concept itself. This article discusses when\u0000and why Scandinavianism entered into political language as a powerful\u0000new concept capable of setting a future-oriented agenda. After analyzing\u0000digitized newspaper material and other relevant publications in Norway,\u0000Sweden, and Denmark and after using a combination of distant and close\u0000reading, it concludes that Scandinavianism as a neologism only appeared\u0000as late as 1843. This article aims to contribute to a conceptual transnational\u0000history of Scandinavianism by examining its emergence, reception, and\u0000discursive context in the early 1840s.","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84231739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/CHOC.2018.130103
W. Marzec, Risto Turunen
This article presents a conceptual history of socialism in two Western borderlands of the Russian Empire—namely, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland. A contrastive comparison is used to examine the birth, dissemination, and breakthrough of the concept from its first appearance until the Revolution of 1905. The concept entered Polish political conversation as a self-applied label among émigrés in the 1830s, whereas the opponents of socialism made it famous in Finland in the 1840s in Swedish and in the 1860s in Finnish. When socialism became a mass movement at the turn of the century, socialist parties (re)defined the concept through underground leaflets and brochures in Poland, and through a legal labor press in Finland. In both cases, the Revolution of 1905 meant the final democratization of socialism, attaching more meanings to the concept and making it the most discussed ism of modern politics.
{"title":"Socialisms in the Tsarist Borderlands","authors":"W. Marzec, Risto Turunen","doi":"10.3167/CHOC.2018.130103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CHOC.2018.130103","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a conceptual history of socialism in two Western borderlands\u0000of the Russian Empire—namely, the Kingdom of Poland and the\u0000Grand Duchy of Finland. A contrastive comparison is used to examine the\u0000birth, dissemination, and breakthrough of the concept from its first appearance\u0000until the Revolution of 1905. The concept entered Polish political conversation\u0000as a self-applied label among émigrés in the 1830s, whereas the\u0000opponents of socialism made it famous in Finland in the 1840s in Swedish\u0000and in the 1860s in Finnish. When socialism became a mass movement at\u0000the turn of the century, socialist parties (re)defined the concept through\u0000underground leaflets and brochures in Poland, and through a legal labor\u0000press in Finland. In both cases, the Revolution of 1905 meant the final democratization\u0000of socialism, attaching more meanings to the concept and\u0000making it the most discussed ism of modern politics.","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82279462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/choc.2018.130104
Christian Roques
Political romanticism is one of the keys to accessing the intellectual debates of the Weimar Republic. This article tries to adopt a radically historicized approach centered on the concept of reception. Such an approach allows it to focus on the strategic nature of the different uses that were made of the romantic paradigm between 1918 and 1933. This article contends that one of the main features that romanticism offers in the German context is its interdiscursive quality that renders it able to transcend traditional political divisions like left /right and conservative/progressive. This idea is illustrated in this article with a series of examples covering the entire lifespan of the Republic and the entire political spectrum therein, which can be represented by such figures as Sigmund Rubinstein, Thomas Mann, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, Karl Mannheim, Othmar Spann, Wilhelm von Schramm, and Paul Tillich.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.3167/choc.2017.120204
Friedemann Pestel
{"title":"On Counterrevolution: Semantic Investigations of a Counterconcept during the French Revolution","authors":"Friedemann Pestel","doi":"10.3167/choc.2017.120204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2017.120204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87826574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.3167/CHOC.2017.120205
J. Hartung
{"title":"Appropriations and Contestations of the Islamic Nomenclature in Muslim North India: Elitism, Lexicography, and the Meaning of The Political","authors":"J. Hartung","doi":"10.3167/CHOC.2017.120205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CHOC.2017.120205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74543841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.3167/CHOC.2017.120202
M. Freeden
{"title":"Crisis? How Is That a Crisis!?: Reflections on an Overburdened Word","authors":"M. Freeden","doi":"10.3167/CHOC.2017.120202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CHOC.2017.120202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78585993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.3167/CHOC.2017.120103
Timo Pankakoski, A. Vihma
{"title":"Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance : A Conceptual Inquiry","authors":"Timo Pankakoski, A. Vihma","doi":"10.3167/CHOC.2017.120103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/CHOC.2017.120103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42746,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to the History of Concepts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79279994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.3167/choc.2017.120104
E. Goudarouli
Th e special section “Knowledge Quests in the European Periphery” attempts to explore the diff erent ways in which conceptual history’s methodologies could be applied to disciplines with which traditional conceptual historians have not previously engaged, such as the history of science, political economy, Enlightenment studies, postcolonial history, and transnational history. Th is special section, when read as a whole, opens up a multidisciplinary space in which center-periphery tensions are examined in the context of conceptual transnational exchange. Coming from diff erent geographical places and cultural spaces within the European periphery, the three case studies draw their methodological background from conceptual history and aim to refl ect on the center-periphery dichotomy by asking how historians from diff erent his-toriographical traditions could take advantage of the methods and theories of conceptual history, as well as how conceptual history could take advantage of the coming together of disciplines that traditionally do not communicate with each other.
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