3. Advertising and Avant-Gardes: A History of Concepts, 1930–1940

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-112
Author(s):  
Yvonne Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts

Riccardo Saccenti, Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016, XIII, pp. 155.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 318-320
Author(s):  
Scott L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Great Chain Of Being ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Hans Kelsen ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
Conceptual Shift

Saccenti’s volume belongs to the category of Begriffsgeschichte, the history of concepts, and more particularly to the debate over the existence or nonexistence of a conceptual shift in ius naturale to encompass a subjective notion of natural rights. The author argues that this issue became particularly relevant in mid-twentieth century, first, because of the desire to delimit the totalitarian implications of legal positivism chez Hans Kelsen; second, in response to Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being and its progeny; and third, as a result of a revival of neo-Thomistic and neo-scholastic perspectives sometimes labelled “une nouvelle chrétienté.”

Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2110212
Author(s):  
Kirill Postoutenko ◽  
Olga Sabelfeld
Keyword(s):  
House Of Commons ◽  
Temporal Semantics ◽  
Sociopolitical Environment ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Historical Semantics ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War

This article aims to demonstrate that the transition from the mainstream narrative to the interactional history of concepts promises tangible benefits for scholars of social time in general and temporal comparisons in particular. It is shown that the traditionally close alignment of narration with the production of historical consciousness at various levels hinders the study of time as a semantic variable perpetually contested, amended and upheld across society. Alternatively, the references to time made in public settings, allowing for more or less instant reactions (turn-taking) as well as expression of dissenting opinions (stance-taking), offer a much more representative palette of temporal semantics and pragmatics in a given sociopolitical environment. In a particularly intriguing case, the essentially deliberative venue where contestation is supported by both institutional arrangements and political reasons (British House of Commons) is put to test under circumstances commonly known as ‘the post-war consensus’ – the unspoken convention directing opposing political parties to suspend stance-taking regarding the past actions of the government during WWII, its immediate aftermath and its future prospects. As a reliable indicator of this arrangement, the contestation of temporal comparisons between relevant pasts and futures is tested in oppositions reflecting party allegiances (Conservatives vs. Labour vs. Liberals) and executive functions (government vs. opposition) between 1946 and 1952. It is shown that, notwithstanding the prevalence of non-contested statements aimed at preserving interactional coherence and pragmatic functionality of the setting, the moderately active contestation of the adversary’s temporal comparisons in the House of Commons at that time helped all parties, albeit to a different degree, to shape their own political and institutional roles as well as to delegitimize their respective adversaries.

scholarly journals Research program "history of concepts": heuristic possibilities in the interpretation of privacy semantics

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Olena Khodus
Keyword(s):  
Classical Type ◽  
Original Research ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Special Value ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Latent Structures ◽  
Interpretive Strategies ◽  
Value Neutrality

The article implements the reception of the original research perspective of the "history of concepts" in order to conceptualize the phenomenon of privacy. The heuristic expediency of this particular analytical optics is substantiated. It makes possible to comprehend in a new way the private reality, which, as it turned out, is devoid of substantiality (today the private can be everywhere) and universality (in the sense that the word "private" can mean a lot of things and these meanings. in representative culture, embedded in the latent structures of power dispositions). It has been proved that the analytical apparatus of the "history of concepts" can be useful as a methodological tool for overcoming the theoretical insufficiency of the classical type of social cognition with its conceptual imperatives of "natural" certainty, rigid orderliness, abstract rationality, "value neutrality", universality, and general applicability to any realities. The "history of concepts" approach, on the other hand, suggests taking into account reflexivity, contextual involvement, double hermeneutics, revealing the origin of the phenomena of human existence, "captured" in a representative linguistic order – concepts, categories, metaphors articulated in linguistic communications. The application of the epistemological principles of the "history of concepts" to the conceptualization of privacy made it possible, therefore, to expand the traditional ideas about this concept and to establish under what conditions this conceptual form: a) is filled with normative meanings; b) acquires a special value status in the actual conceptual vocabulary involved in the everyday interpretive strategies of the "personal I"; c) it is supplemented with new semantic connotations ("linguistic innovations" in R. Kosellek's terminology) in the structure of thinking similar to "publishing the private", "privatizing the public", which brings to the fore the issue of reflection on the specific contextuality that guides the work of the language.

scholarly journals El concepto de interés en España, 1770-1823 / The Concept of Interest in Spain, 1770-1823

2017 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Luis Fernández Torres
Keyword(s):  
Political Community ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Semantic Transformation ◽  
Spanish Enlightenment

The extension in the use, its semantic transformation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its comparatively scarce interest as a subject of reflection for contemporary writers constitute three features that distinguished and provided with a peculiar history the concept of interest. Only in rare occasions this dominated the centre of discourse over that period. Notwithstanding this minor position, the concept of interest proved to be a key lexical tool in the efforts to redefine both the idea of social and political community and the nature of links that help maintain this community united.Key WordsInterest, Spanish Enlightenment, history of concepts, liberalism, common good.ResumenLa extensión en el uso, su transformación semántica entre finales del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX y su comparativamente escasa atracción como objeto de estudio en los autores coetáneos constituyen tres rasgos que singularizan y dotan de una historia peculiar al concepto de interés. Solo en raras ocasiones este se erigió en centro del discurso en el citado período. A pesar de esa posición secundaria, dicho concepto fue un instrumento léxico clave en los esfuerzos de reformulación tanto de la idea de comunidad social y política como de la naturaleza de los vínculos que mantienen unida de dicha comunidad.Palabras claveInterés, Ilustración española, historia de los conceptos, liberalismo, bien común.

Ambiguous Play

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Nathan Hulsey
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Task ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Cultural Turn

This chapter is a critical-conceptual introduction to the topic of gamification from the standpoint of game studies (the study of games) and ludology (the study of play). A secondary task is to move the definition and conceptual history of gamification away from essentialist notions of play and games and towards a more nuanced understanding of gamification as a philosophy of design with situational outcomes. By examining the controversy surrounding gamification as a complex history of concepts, the chapter aims to give the reader an overview of how gamification aligns with or deviates from various definitions of games and play. Gamification can be controversial when using traditional ludological concepts largely because traditional ludology is pre-digital, and does not account for the current technological and cultural shifts driving gaming and gamification. Finally, the chapter ends with the suggestion that the current cultural turn in game studies provides a way to analyze gamification as an example of the “gaming of culture.”

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.

Renaissance Man and Creative Thinking: A History of Concepts of Harmony 1400-1700

Leonardo ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
S. R. Holtzman ◽  
Dorothy Koenigsberger
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Renaissance Man

Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe Reloaded?

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ◽  
Kathrin Kollmeier ◽  
Willibald Steinmetz ◽  
Philipp Sarasin ◽  
Alf Lüdtke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Basic Concepts

Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe Reloaded? Writing the Conceptual History of the Twentieth Century Guest editors: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Kathrin KollmeierIntroduction Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Kathrin KollmeierSome Thoughts on the History of Twentieth-Century German Basic Concepts Willibald SteinmetzIs a “History of Basic Concepts of the Twentieth Century“ Possible? A Polemic Philipp SarasinHistory of Concepts, New Edition: Suitable for a Better Understanding of Modern Times? Alf LüdtkeReply Christian Geulen

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