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For a Critical Conceptual History of Brazil
Receiving Begriffsgeschichte
in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
João Feres Júnior
João Feres Júnior
Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro jferes@iesp.uerj.br
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The author argues that the development of a critical history of concepts should be based on a programmatic position different from that of original Begriffsgeschichte, or of its main interpretations. By drawing upon theoretical insights of Axel Honneth, he reassesses the basic assumption of Begriffsgeschichte regarding the relationship between the history of concepts and social history, and calls attention to the problems that spring from focusing analysis almost exclusively on key concepts. According to Feres, special attention should be paid to concepts that are socially and politically effective, but, at the same time, do not become the subject of public contestation. Based on this programmatic position, he ends the article proposing a sketch for organizing the study of conceptual history in Brazil along three semantic regions.