Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change

Title page Copyright page Contents Preface Acknowledgments 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 Begriffsgeschichte: 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 Desubstantialization of Concepts Epilogue: Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse Quoted Bibliography Index