《The History of Political and Social Concepts》是1995年Melvin Richter出版的圖書，作者是Beebe, Steven A.、Beebe, Susan J.。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The History of Political and Social Concepts
- 作者：Oxford University Press, USA
- 出版時間：1995年9月7日
- 出版社：Melvin Richter
- 頁數：214 頁
- ISBN：9780195088267
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
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.
The questions these scholars address, and the methods they apply systematically to a broad range of sources, differ as much from the styles of Hegel, Dilthey, and Meinecke as from those of A.O. Lovejoy, J.G.A. Pocock, and Quentin Skinner.
Begriffsgeschichte treats political language neither as autonomous discourse, nor as the product of ideology, social structure, or elite manipulation. Although conceptual historians agree that the field of action is defined by language, they place concept formation and use within historical
contexts. By surveying political and social discourses systematically, this genre traces how the great modern revolutions have been conceptualized in sharply contested forms by competing political and social formations, as well as by individual thinkers. Combining intellectual with social history,
historians of concepts track linguistically the advent, mentalities, and effects of modernity.
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 civilitO`e 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.
作者簡介
梅爾文·里克特，紐約市立大學亨特學院教授，政治思想史及概念史專家。政治社會概念史國際團隊發起人之一。曾出版《托克維爾在阿爾及利亞》、《孟德斯鳩的政治理論》和《歷史術語及概念的涵義：概念史最新研究論集》等著作。
