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Chapter 4 - Conceptual History

Its Philosophical Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2024

Elías J. Palti
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University of Buenos Aires
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Chapter 4 focuses on the German tradition of conceptual history and its philosophical foundations. As it shows, both theories, the Cambridge school’s and the German conceptual history’s, must be placed within the frameworks of the break of the evolutionist-teleological views of history at the end of the nineteenth century. It paved the way to the emergence of a new idea of temporality articulated around the idea of the radical contingency of historical processes. In turn, it provided the basis for an opposition between “natural sciences” and “cultural sciences,” emphasizing the centrality of subjective intentionality in the latter. The philosophical expression of this conceptual turn was Neo-Kantian historicism, whose best representative is Wilhelm Dilthey and his project of a “critique of historical reason.” The premise for it is the assumption of the meaningful character of social actions, which entailed another way of breaking the opposition between “ideas” and “reality,” different from that of the Cambridge school.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conceptual History
  • Elías J. Palti, University of Buenos Aires
  • Book: Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
  • Online publication: 02 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009461245.006
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  • Conceptual History
  • Elías J. Palti, University of Buenos Aires
  • Book: Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
  • Online publication: 02 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009461245.006
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  • Conceptual History
  • Elías J. Palti, University of Buenos Aires
  • Book: Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
  • Online publication: 02 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009461245.006
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