“Our discipline works under a tacit presupposition of teleology .” —Reinhart Koselleck At the end of the nineteenth century, republicanism became the mythomoteur on which France’s identity was shaped throughout the following century. Back then, the
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In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Introduction
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- 1–24 (24 total)
A Specter Is Haunting Germany--the French Specter of Milieu
On the Nomadicity and Nationality of Cultural Vocabularies
Wolf Feuerhahn
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Isabelle Stengers fought against a state-controlled form of science and saw “nomadic science/concepts” as a way to escape from it. The transnational history of the term milieu marks a good opportunity to contribute to another theory of nomadic vocabularies. Traveling from France to Germany, the word milieu came to be identified as a French theory. Milieu was seen as an expression of determinism, of the connection between the rise of the natural sciences and the rise of socialism, and it deterred the majority of German academics. Umwelt was thus coined as an “antimilieu” expression. This article defends a “transnational historical semantic” against the Koselleckian history of concepts and its a priori distinctions between words and concepts. Instead of taking its nature for granted, a transnational historical semantic investigation should analyze the terminological and national status given to the objects of investigation by the term's users.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Raymonde Monnier
Departing from Mario Turchetti's study on the concept of tyranny and tyrannicide, the author sets out to explore its specific use in the political discourse in the eighteenth century. Originally, as in the works of Plato and Montesquieu, tyranny was used in reference to degenerate forms of government. Tyranny and tyrannicide gained additional significance with its inclusion in the virulent discourse during the radicalization of the French Revolution. Based on the myth of Brutus and other classical sources, anti-tyrannical rhetoric in the form revolutionary literature and propaganda spurted political activism. As the figure of the king became the main obstacle to liberty and the foundation of a new republic, tyranny and tyrannicide became key concepts in the revolutionary movements.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Mar 2006
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On Counterrevolution
Semantic Investigations of a Counterconcept during the French Revolution
Friedemann Pestel
the observation that the uses of the category of counterrevolution in scholarship on the French Revolution significantly contrast with its historical occurrences. Its widespread association with political reaction, ultraroyalism, or restoration of the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Francesco Maria Scanni and Francesco Compolongo
of the 15M movement, catalysed that nation's crisis of bipolarism with its denunciation of the privilege and corruption in politics and finance ( Caruso 2014 Della Porta et al. 2017a ; Martin 2015 ; Torreblanca 2015 ). Finally, in France ex
The Socio-analytical Approach
Differences in International Scientific Discourses
Rolf-Dieter Hepp
East of the Rhine, Pierre Bourdieu's theory and his object-related works are understood primarily as an analysis of French society. Their particular implications are understood in such a way that the analyses capture the particularities of the
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 67–92 (26 total)
The Specter of Communism
Denmark, 1848
Bertel Nygaard
Among all the new phenomena in recent times, none have appeared as radical and comprehensively subversive as socialism and communism. In France, the center and starting-point of all political movement, socialism and communism has proven to be the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Observations on the Semantic Trajectory of Pluralism in Scholarly Discourse
A Study of Two Argumentative Tropes
Jean Terrier
Kingdom; I also offer some references to French and Italian developments). Moreover, in line with my emphasis on intellectual and political struggle, what I discuss are the positions of both proponents and adversaries of pluralism . Given the constraints
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Rolf Dieter Hepp
contracts, they are about not only less payment but also the conditions of such contracts, which differ from country to country, as the social laws in France and Germany, for instance, are significantly different. In France, subcontracts can be terminated at
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 22–35 (14 total)
Social Quality
Regaining Political Economy
Peter Herrmann
Unwin . Lipietz , A. 1987 . “ Rebel Sons: The Regulation School, Interview Conducted by Jane Jenson .” French Politics and Society 5 ( 4 ): 17 – 26 . Lojkine , J. , and J-L. Maletras . 2016 . “ Révolution numérique ou révolution
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 87–106 (20 total)