Conceptual history

Interest in conceptual history was given a particular boost in the 20th century through the publication of the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, and the journal Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte.

Conceptual history is an interdisciplinary methodology. Alongside philosopher Joachim Ritter, historians Otto Brunner, Werner Conze, and Reinhart Koselleck, and sociologist Erich Rothacker are viewed as its pioneers in the German-speaking world and internationally. Raymond Williams was the leading scholar in the English-speaking world. Since the Eighties, a relevant development of the history of concepts (storia dei concetti), has been promoted by a numerous group of Italian scholars, counting among them Alessandro Biral, Giuseppe Duso, {{ill|Carlo Galli (politician)|it|Carlo Galli (politico)|lt=Carlo Galli}}, and Roberto Esposito, founders of the Centro di ricerca sul lessico politico europeo.{{cite web |title=Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sul Lessico Politico e Giuridico Europeo (CIRLPGE) |url=http://www.cirlpge.it/ricercatori.php |access-date=2020-11-27 |archive-date=2020-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206080437/http://www.cirlpge.it/ricercatori.php |url-status=dead }} Outlets of the Italian debate on conceptual history have been the short-lived Centauro (1981-1986){{cite book |last1=Gentili |first1=Dario |title=La crisi del politico: antologia de il Centauro (1981-1986) |date=2007 |publisher=Guida |location=Napoli |isbn=9788860422897}} and Filosofia Politica, founded in 1987. Today, conceptual history is promoted also by the History of Concepts Group and its peer-reviewed journal Contributions to the History of Concepts under the lead of Margrit Pernau, Jan Ifversen, and Jani Marjanen. Another journal that publishes research in conceptual history is the Journal of the History of Ideas. Examples of conceptual histories include a genealogy of the concept of globalization drawing on the approach of Williams written by Paul James and Manfred B. Steger:

{{quote|Although keywords represent a critical mass of the vocabulary of any given era, the history of their meaning construction often remains obscure. "Globalization" is no exception. While the meanings of other seminal "keywords" such as "economics", "culture", or "modernity" evolved rather slowly and built upon a relatively continuous base, "globalization" has had a very short and discontinuous history.{{sfn|James|Steger|2014|pp=418–419}}}}

This historiographical approach has also been used by the Cambridge Group for the History and Epistemology of Psychiatry who, since the 1980s, has published a long series of papers on the ‘conceptual history’ of the most relevant mental symptoms and diseases.Berrios G.E. & Marková I.S. (2002) Conceptual issues. In H. D’Haenen, J.A. den Boer and P. Willner (eds) Biological Psychiatry. New York, John Wiley, pp3-24.

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• History of ideas
• Jus commune

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