Towards a Comparative History of Concepts

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-233
Author(s):  
Pim den Boer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
European Languages ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Introductory Discussion ◽  
Conceptual Evolution

Building upon an introductory discussion on linguistic exchange - the problem of missing words - and the emergence of transnational concepts, this article consists of a comparative study of the history of the concept of civilisation in some major European languages and the concept of beschaving in Dutch, the closest translation to civilisation in that language. According to the author, the particular and independent conceptual evolution of beschaving should be in part explained by the early development of a modern socio-economic structure in Holland.

The place of romanticism within the “comparative history of literatures in European languages”

Neohelicon ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
Milan V. Dimić ◽  
Frederick Garber
Keyword(s):  
Comparative History ◽  
European Languages ◽  
History Of

Miroslav Hroch's model of small nation-formation and Begriffsgeschichte

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-827
Author(s):  
Oana Sînziana Păltineanu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social History ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Nation Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Opening Up

This article focuses on Miroslav Hroch's book titled Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe and it tries to build on Hroch's model of small nation-formation mainly on a methodological level. The aim is to incorporate the “subjective” dimension in Hroch's analysis of the “objective” factors that lead to nation-formation, by opening up the discursive level to investigation. I suggest that the comparative study of nation-formation needs to remain connected to the study of nationalism as a phenomenon, including the investigation of the discursive plane, of the political languages, and histories of concepts. In this sense, the article seeks to link Hroch's work to Begriffsgeschichte and to present a range of interpretations on how these two could work together, on a methodological level. The answers come mainly from Reinhart Koselleck's theorizing on the relation between social history and the history of concepts. This article also addresses compatibility problems that aim to encourage a more integrative type of analysis that would entail an in-depth and critical revisiting of Hroch's model. At the same time, Hroch's model proves to be flexible enough to be situated at the intersection of more types of history writing.

Ideology, inquiry, and antiquity: a critical notice of Lloyd’s The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-256
Author(s):  
Sylvia Berryman
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Ancient Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Critical Notice

A discussion of Lloyd’s Tarner Lectures at Trinity College. The importance of Lloyd’s previous scholarship is characterized and these sweeping, erudite lectures are placed in the context of that scholarship. In the broadest terms, the lectures are a call to culturally and historically comparative study of human reasoning. At their heart is a comparative history of scientific theorizing from the ancients through to modern science. Lloyd rejects the positivist picture, and the view of modern and ancient science as discontinuous; he urges scholars to undertake comparative work on the ancient sciences in different traditions. This critical notice evaluates Lloyd’s view and raises several questions for further reflection.

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