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International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought

Links

The links are1 compiled by Associate Professor Martin J. Burke (The City University of New York). If you have any suggestions concerning the links, please send email to us.

"Anglo-American" Philosophies of Language and History

  • E. Margolis, "Concepts"
    From STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • Jason Stanley, "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century"
    An extended description of the philosophy of language from G. Frege and B. Russell to Quine, Grice and co.
  • Kepa Korta and John Perry, "Pragmatics"
    From STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online.
  • Barry Smith, "Toward a History of Speech Act Theory"
    From A. Burkhardt, ed., Speech Acts, Meanings and Intentions. Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter (1990), 29-61.
  • Mitchell Green "Speech Acts"
    From the STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • Mark Crimmins, "Philosophy of Language"
    From the ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
  • D. Collier, "Essentially Contested Concepts: Debates and Applications"
    From JOURNAL OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES 11 (2006) [restricted access]
  • Wikipedia entry on "Illocutionary Act"
  • Wikipedia entry on "Essentially Contested Concepts"
  • Wikipedia entry on "W.B. Gallie"
  • Wikipedia entry on "Herbert Butterfield"
  • Stanford Encyclopedia entry on "Robin George Collingwood"
    From the STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Stanford Encyclopedia entry on "Thomas Kuhn"
    From the STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Wikipedia enrty on "John Searle"
  • Wikipedia entry on "J.L. Austin"
  • Duncan Richter "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
    From the INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Wikipedia entry on "Ordinary Language Philosophy"
  • Kent Bach, "Speech Acts"
    From the ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY

Begriffsgeschichte: Brunner, Conze, Koselleck and the GG"

  • R. Koselleck, "Linguistic Change and the History of Events"
    From JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 61 (1989) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • J. Rusen, "Review of HISTORICHE SEMANTIK UND BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE"
    From JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 54 (1982) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • James Sheehan, "Begriffsgeschichte: Theory and Practice"
    From JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 50 (1978)[restricted access]. First English-language review of the GG (vols. 1 and 2).
  • Keith Tribe, "The GG Project: from History of Ideas to Conceptual History"
    From COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY 31 (1989) [restricted acces via JSTOR]
  • R. Koselleck, "The Temporalization of Concepts"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 1 (1997)
  • Jurgen Kocka, "Sozialgeschichte in Deutschland seit 1945..."
    Published by the Instituts fur Sozialgeschichte, 2002.
  • de.Wikipedia entry on "Werner Conze"
  • R. Koselleck, "Social History and Conceptual History"
    From INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY 2 (1989) [restricted access]
  • Peter N. Miller, "Nazis and Neo-Stoics: O. Brunner and G. Oestreich..."
    From PAST AND PRESENT 176 (2002). On Otto Brunner, one of the three main editors of the GG. [restricted access]
  • G. Motzkin, "Reinhart Koselleck's Construction of the Sattelzeit"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.2 (2005). On "sattelzeit" as model and metaphor.
  • Reinhard Mehring, Review of Begriffsgeschichten
    From H-Soz-Kult. A review of the 2006 collection of Koselleck's essays.
  • R. Koselleck, "Conceptual History, Memory and Identity"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 2.1 (2006) A 2005 interview by Javier Fernandez-Sebastian in Madrid.
  • R. Koselleck, Begriffsgeschichten
    A book notice by Surhkamp for the 2006 collection.
  • Stephan Schlak, "Begnadeter Begriffszauberer"
    On R. Koslleck, from DIE ZEIT online. An assessment of Koselleck's work, in particular the BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTEN collection.
  • M. Richter and H. Lehmann, The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts
    Papers from 1996 GHI conference marking the completion of the GG. Included are M. Richter, J. Melton, D. Kelley, G. Motzkin, J.G.A. Pocock and R. Koselleck.
  • Jan Ifversen: Om den tyske begrebshistorie
    From POLITOLOGISKE (2003). Artikel om de teoretiske og metodiske præmisser bag Reinhardt Kosellek's Begriffsgeschichte.
  • R. Koselleck, "Modelli di storiografia"
    From ENCICLOPEDIA MULTIMEDIALE DELLE SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE. Comments by Koselleck in 1992 interview in Naples.
  • T. Jorgensen, "Begrebshistorie for Viderekommende"
    From POLITOLOGISKE (2003) review of C. Schmitt, LA DICTATURE; R. Koselleck, PRACTICE OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY
  • M. Richter, "Appreciating a Contemporary Classic..."
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1997). An appreciation and assessment made at the completion of the GG.
  • Kari Palonen, "An Application of Conceptual History to Itself"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1997). A conceptual history of "Begriffsgeschichte", especially as used in the GG.
  • Klett-Cotta, Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon...
    Book advertisement by Klett-Cotta, publishers of the GG.
  • Elias Palti, "La construccion de la historia"
    From CLARIN online. On Koselleck's career and scholarly contributions.
  • de.Wikipedia entry, "Sattelzeit"
  • Sandro Chignola, "....Koselleck's Proposal and Italian Research"
    From HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT 23(2002). An analysis of the GG project, Koselleck's philosophy of history, and their implications for Italian scholarship.[restricted access]
  • Niklas Olsen, "Reinhart Koselleck's....Relations with Carl Schmitt"
    From HISTORISK TIDSSKRIFT. On the significance and influence of Schmitt for understanding Koselleck.
  • Laura Para, "La Historia despues de Heidegger"
    Paper from Foroiberoideas. On the "Hermeneutik und Historik" exchanges with H-G Gadamer.
  • Niklas Olsen, "Historien on de historike grundbegreber"
    From Historie-nu online. On the significance of O. Brunner and C. Schmitt for RK and the GG.
  • Wkipedia entry, "Otto Brunner"
  • Wikipedia entry, "Reinhart Koselleck"
    [also in French]
  • Wikipedia entry on "Begriffsgeschichte"
  • Begriffsgeschichte als theoretischer Ansatz - Reinhart Koselleck
    Online article by Stefan Hass in GESCHICHTSTHEORIE.
  • Reinhart Koselleck im Gespräch mit Renate Solbach
    From IABLIS (2003) online. An interview by Renate Solbach with the title "Öffentlichkeit ist kein Subjekt". Koselleck comments among other things on 9/11.
  • Stefan Berger, review of Koselleck, PRACTICE OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY
    From JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY (2004) of the 2002 collection edited by Hayden White.
  • La storia della philosophia tra storica concettuale e filosofia
    Seminar “Lo Statuto della Filosofia Polticia” August 2007; On importance on Otto Brunner’s work
  • Harry Ritter “Begriffsgeschichte” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing” pp. 87-88
  • Irmline Veit-Brause, “A Note on Begriffsgeschichte”
    From History and Theory 20 (1981) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Gunter Scholtz (Hr.) Die Interdisziplinarität der Begriffsgeschichte (2000)
    [via Google Books]
  • Melvin and Michela Richter, “Introduction: Translation of Reinhart Koselleck, 'Krise'”
    From Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (2006) [restricted access via Project Muse]
  • Michela Richter and Reinhart Koselleck, “Crisis”
    From Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (2006) [restricted access via Project Muse]
  • Reinhart Koselleck: Goethes Unzeitgemäße Geschichte

    Delivered at Collegium Budapest, 14 December 1993


Begriffsgeschichte: Joachim Ritter and the HWP

  • H-J Sandkuhler, "...Joachim Ritter, Ernst Cassirer und die Philosophie..."
    From DIALEKTIK 1 (2006)
  • de.Wikipedia entry, "Joachim Ritter"
  • de.Wikipedia entry, "Historische Wörterbuch der Philosophie "
  • Marco Sgarbi, “On the History of Concepts” Quaestio 5 (2005)
    [restricted access via Brepols online]

Begriffsgeschichte: Reinhart Koselleck as Historian and Philosopher

  • David Carr, "Review of FUTURES PAST: ON THE SEMANTICS OF HISTORICAL TIME"
    From HISTORY AND THEORY 26 (1987) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Hayden White, "Review of FUTURES PAST: ON THE SEMANTICS OF HISTORICAL TIME"
    From AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 92 (1987) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Jeff Malpas, Hans-Georg Gadamer
    From the STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • P. Branco, "...um dialogo entre Carl Schmitt e Reinhart Koselleck
    From SOCIEDADE E ESTADO 21 (2006) on "the sociology of concepts and conceptual history"
  • H. Akos, "Reinhart Koselleck fogalomtortenete..."
    From KORALL 15-16 (2005)
  • J. Edwards, "Critique and Crisis Today: Koselleck, Enlightenment..."
    From CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY 5 (2006) abstract
  • JF Missfelder, "...Carl Schmitt, Reinhart Koselleck und der Burgerkreig"
    From ZEITSCHRIFT FUR RELIGIONS UND GEISTESGESCHICHTE 58 (2006). On Koslleck, Schmitt, Heidelberg and Thomas Hobbes. [restricted access]
  • Michael Pickering, "...Koselleck, Expectation and Historical Time."
    From CULTURAL STUDIES 18 (2004) On Koselleck's application of the concept of horizon in terms of his analyses of experience and expectation. [restricted access]
  • Sisko Haikala, "...Perspectives on Koselleck's Kritik und Krise Study"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1997). On the philosophical, historiographical, and methodological grounds and consequences of the 1954 Koselleck text.
  • Anders Schinkel, "Imagination as a Category of History..."
    From HISTORY AND THEORY 44 (2005) On Kosellleck's concepts of Erfahrungsraum and Erwartungshorizont. [restricted access]
  • John Zammito, "Koselleck's Philosophy of Historical Times(s)..."
    From HISTORY AND THEORY 43 (2004). An analysis of Koselleck's ZEITSCHICHTEN. [restricted access]
  • Bo Stråth, “Review of FUTURES PAST: ON THE SEMANTICS OF HISTORICAL TIME”
    From European Journal of Social Theory 8 (2005) [restricted access]
  • Sandro Chignola, “Sobre la Historik de Reinhart Koselleck”
    From Isegoría 37 (2007)
  • Faustina Coves, “Historica Conceptual y Hermenéutica”
    From Azafea: revista fi filosofia [article abstract]
  • C. Meier, D. Timmerman, I. Wachsmuth, N. Bulst, W. Steinmetz, M. Richter.
    “Reinhart Koselleck, 1923-2006”
    From UNI:gespräche 9 (2007)

Begriffsgeschichte: Rolf Reichardt and the Handbuch

  • R. Reichardt, "Visual Representations of a Central Enlightenment Concept"
    On "Light against Darkness." From REPRESENTATIONS 61 (1998) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Jeremy Popkin, "Recent German Work on the French Revolution"
    From JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 59 (1987) [restricted access via JSTOR) Includes one of the first English language discussions of the HANDBUCH.
  • D. Schonpflug, "...Comparison, Transfer and Memory..."
    From FRENCH HISTORY 18 (2004) [restricted access] On recent German scholarship on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, including the HANDBUCH.
  • Prof. Dr. Rolf Reichardt's Homepage
  • Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink and R. Reichardt, THE BASTILLE
    Book abstract from Duke University Press. A semiotic study of the Bastille.
  • Gudrun Gersmann, interview with Rolf Reichardt
    From historicum.net. Includes comments by Rolf Reichardt on the historiography of the French Revolution.
  • M. Middell, "La Revolution francaise et l'Allegmane..."
    From ANNALES HISTORIQUES DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE. On the French Revolution and "cultural transfers."
  • Handbuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich 1680-1820, H.16-18.
    Online book advertisement by Oldenburg.
  • Lynn Hunt, “Review of the Handbuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich, 1680-1820"
    From Journal of Modern History 60 (1988) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink - list of publications

 

Bielefeld or Cambridge? Jyväskylä and New York?

  • Melvin Richter, "Understanding Begriffsgeschichte..."
    From POLITICAL THEORY 17 (1989) [restricted access via JSTOR] Richter´s reply to Rayner.
  • Jeremy Rayner, "On Begriffgeschichte"
    From POLTICAL THEORY 16 (1988) [restricted access via JSTOR] A critique of M. Richter`s construal of Begriffsgeschichte.
  • P. Ihalainen. "...Reconstructing the History of Poliitcal Thought..."
    From JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS 7 (2006) [restricted access]
  • K. Palonen, "...Theses on Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck."
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1999)
  • Rudolf Valkhof, "Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Discourse"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 2.1 (2006)
  • Centre for Political Discourse Studies, "Discourse Directions Abroad"
    A comparative summary from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • J. Coleman, "The Practical Use of Begriffsgeschichte...Some Problems"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1999)
  • Maurizio Merlo, "La ambivalencia de los conceptos"
    From RES PUBLICA (1998)
  • Kari Palonen, "Q. Skinner's and R. Koselleck's Subversion..."
    From EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY 1 (2002) [restricted access]
  • Begriffs-und Diskursgeschichtliche Methodologien
    Online lecture outline, 2004
  • Ricardo Pinto, "Neo-Republicanism: a Critical Introduction"
    Conference paper, ECPR 2000
  • Christian Nadeau on Koselleck and Skinner
    From CAHIERS D'EPISTEMOLOGIE (2005-07)
  • Jörn Leonhard, “Grundbegriffe und Sattelzeiten—Languages and Discourses”
    In Rebekka Habermas, (Hrsg.) Interkultureller Transfer und nationaler Eigensinn…
    (2004)
  • Andrew Vincent, The Nature of Political Theory (2004)
    [via Google Books]

Cambridge School: Contextualists and Their Critics

  • L. O'Sullivan, "Michael Oakeshott on European Political History"
    From HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT 21 (2000)
  • C. Cuttica, "Patriarchialism as Political Language in early 17thc. England"
    CEU (Budapest) conference paper abstract.
  • Rafael Major, "The Cambridge School and Leo Strauss..."
    From POLTICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY 58 no. 3 (September 2005), pp. 477-85 [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • M. Goodhart, "Quentin Skinner's Hobbes, Reconsidered..."
    From REVIEW OF POLITICS 62 no. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 531-61 [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Mark Bevir, "The Errors of Linguistic Contexualism"
    From HISTORY AND THEORY 31 (1992)
  • Markku Peltonen, "Politeness and Whiggism, 1688-1732"
    From THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL 48(2005) [restricted access]
  • J. Allen, "Isaiah Berlin's Anti-Procrustean Liberalism: Ideas..."
    Conference paper APSA 2003
  • A. Haddock, "...Retrospective Description and Its Consequences."
    From PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 32 (2002) [restricted access]
  • L. Mulligan et al., "Intentions and Conventions: a Critique..."
    From POLITICAL STUDIES 27(1979) [restricted access]
  • R. Martin, "...Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change."
    From POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY 50 (1997) [restricted access]
  • David Wooton, "Liberty, Metaphor and Mechanism"
    Revised 2002 British Society for 18th Century Studies paper from constitution.org
  • Duncan Bell, "The Cambridge School and World Politics"
    Conference paper, 2001
  • Kent Wright, review of HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT IN NATIONAL CONTEXT
    From Journal of Modern History 76 (2004) [restricted access via Chicago Journals]
  • D. Norbrook, WRITING THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC
    Chapter 1: "Acts of Oblivion and Republican Speech Acts"
  • CUP, IDEAS IN CONTEXT series
  • CUP, CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • Mikael Hornqvist, MACHIAVELLI AND LIBERTY
    Chapter 1: "Another Philosophy"
  • James Stoner, "Was Leo Strauss Wrong about John Locke?"
    From Claremont Institute papers online. A Straussian reply to Dunn's Cambridge contextualism and other approaches to Locke.
  • Philip Pettit, "Liberty and Leviathan"
    From: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 4 (2005) [restricted access via Sage journals]
  • D. Castiglione, "Republicanism and Its Legacy"
    From EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY 4 (2005) [restricted access]
  • John McCormack, "Machiavelli Against Republicanism..."
    From POLITICAL THEORY 31 (2003) A critique of the Cambridge School [restricted access]
  • Mark Bevir, "The Role of Contexts in Understanding and Explanation"
    Conference paper, ECPR 2000
  • Wikipedia entry on "Peter Laslett"
  • EDUCATION GUARDIAN on Peter Laslett
  • Peter Burke, "Context in Context"
    From COMMON KNOWLEDGE 8 (2002)
  • John Dunn, "Getting Democracy into Focus"
    From opendemocracy.net (2005)
  • Wikipedia entry on "John Dunn"
  • Patricia Springborg, “Republicanism, Freedom from Domination, and the Cambridge Contextual Historians”
    From Political Studies 49 (2001) [restricted access]
  • Ryan Walter, “The Economy and Pocock’s Political Economy”
    From History of European Ideas 34 (2008) [restricted access]
  • Peter Janssen, “Political Thought as Traditionary Action: the Critical Response to Skinner and Pocock”
    From History and Theory 24 (1985) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • James Tully, ed. An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context
    (1993)
    [via Google Books]
  • Mark Bevir, “Contextualism: From Modernist Method to Post-analytic Historicism”
    Journal of the Philosophy of History 3 (2009)
    [restricted access via Brill journals online]
  • A.P. Martinich, “Four Senses of ‘Meaning’ in the History of Ideas: Quentin Skinner’s Theory of Historical Interpretation” Journal of the Philosophy of History 3 (2009)
    [restricted access via Brill journals online]
  • Jonardon Garneri, “Contextualism in the Study of Indian Intellectual Cultures”
    Journal of Indian Philosophy 36 (2008)
    [restricted access via SpringerLink]
  • Brian Young, “Enlightenment Political Thought and the Cambridge School” Historical Journal 52 (2009) 
  • Robert Lamb, “Quentin Skinner’s Revised Historical Contextualism: a Critique”
    History of the Human Sciences 22 (2009)
    [restricted access via Sage journals online]
  • Gordon Schochet, “Quentin Skinner’s Method” Political Theory 2 (1974)
    [restricted access via JSTOR]

Cambridge School: J.G.A. Pocock

  • A. Moulakis, "Civic Humanism"
    From STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • Ralph Lerner, review of BARBARISM AND RELIGION
    From LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 19 (2001).
  • J.D.C. Clark, review of BARBARISM AND RELIGION
    H-Net review, 2000
  • F. Lovett, "Republicanism"
    From STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • J.G.A. Pocock, "Edward Gibbon in History"
    Tanner lectures, Yale University 1989
  • Wilipedia entry on "J.G.A. Pocock"
  • J.G.A. Pocock, POLITICS, LANGUAGE AND TIME
    Book abstract from University of Chicago Press
  • Arthur Williamson, “Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, and John Pocock: the appeals of whigs old and new” [Review of Barbarism and Religion, Vols. 1-2]
    From British Journal of Political Science 14 (1984) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Brian Young, “The Enlightenments of J.G.A. Pocock”
    From History of European Ideas 25 (1999) [restricted access]
  • J.G.A. Pocock, “Verbalizing a Political Act”
    Political Theory 1 (1973)  [restricted access via JSTOR]

Cambridge School: Quentin Skinner

  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, "Intellectual History, Liberty and Republicanism"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 3 (2007) An interview with Quentin Skinner[restricted access]
  • C. Nederman, "Q. Skinner's State: Historical Method and... Discourse"
    From CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 18 (1985) [restricted access via J-Stor]
  • Ian Carter, "Positive and Negative Liberty"
    From STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY online
  • Quentin Skinner, "Rhetoric and Conceptual Change"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 2 (1998)
  • Quentin Skinner, "The Paradoxes of Political Liberty"
    Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, October 1984.
  • Quentin Skinner, "Rethinking Political Liberty"
    From HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL 61 (2006) [restricted access]
  • Quentin Skinner, “A Genealogy of Liberty” Webcast lecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
  • Quentin Skinner, “The Place of History in Public Life” British Academy lecture, 2005
  • Quentin Skinner,  “What is the State? The Question that ‘Will Not Go Away.”
    Video of the Lee Seng Tee lecture, Cambridge University, 2007
  • William Walker, "Sallust and Skinner on Civil Liberty"
    From EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY 5 (2006) [restricted access]
  • Carl Shaw, "Quentin Skinner on the Proper Meaning of Republican Liberty"
    From POLITICS 23 (2003) [restricted access]
  • R. Lamb, "Quentin Skinner's 'Post-Modern' History of Ideas"
    Review of VISIONS OF POLITICS from HISTORY 89 (2004) [restricted access]
  • Quentin Skinner, "How Many Concepts of Liberty?"
    Podcast from the University of Sydney, 2006
  • A. Brett and J. Tully, "Preface" to RETHINKING THE FOUNDATIONS...
  • Emile Perreau-Saussine, "Quentin Skinner in Context"
    From THE REVIEW OF POLITICS 69 (2007) [restricted access]
  • Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's "Discourses" and "The Prince"
    From MACHIAVELLIS FURSTEN-TECH OCH KONTEXT online
  • Einaudi Press, "Intervista a Quentin Skinner"
  • Johh Keane, "More Theses on the Philosophy of History"
    From MEANING AND CONTEXT: QUENTIN SKINNER AND HIS CRITICS (1988) a critique of Skinner's "new history"
  • Nadia Urbanati, "The Historian and the Ideologist"
    Review of Q. Skinner, VISIONS OF POLITICS; K. Palonen, QUENTIN SKINNER from POLITICAL THEORY 33 (2005) [restricted access]
  • John Keane, Interview with Quentin Skinner
    From CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY BULLETIN (2000)
  • Philip Petit, "On a Difference with Quentin Skinner"
    From POLITICAL THEORY 30 (2002)
  • Kari Palonen, "Introduction" to QUENTIN SKINNER: HISTORY, POLITICS, RHETORIC
  • Quentin Skinner's lecture: Three Concepts of Liberty (video)
    Delivered at Columbia University, 2003
  • Joao Feres, "Revendo a Contribuicao Metodologica de Quentin Skinner"
    From DADOS (2005)
  • Quentin Skinner, "Introduction" to VISIONS OF POLITICS, Vol. 1
  • Sine Just, review of K. Palonen, QUENTIN SKINNER
    From RHETORICAL REVIEW (2004)
  • John Wilson, "Two Concepts of Quentin Skinner"
    Online review of Skinner, TWO CONCEPTS OF POLITICS.
  • Wikipedia entry on "Quentin Skinner"
  • J.G.A. Pocock on Quentin Skinner
    From COMMON KNOWLEDGE 10 (2004) [restricted access]
  • Petri Koikkalainen and Sami Syrjämäki "On Encountering the Past - Interview with Quentin Skinner"
    Published first (in finnish) in niin & näin 4/2001 and in Finnish Yearbook of political Thought vol. 6, 2002.
  • M. Edling, U. Morkenstam “Quentin Skinner: From Historian of Ideas to Political Scientist”
    From Scandinavian Political Studies 18 (1995) [restricted access]
  • Timothy Fisken, “Intellectual History as Political Theory: the Relevance of Quentin Skinner”
    (2006)
  • E. Alejandro, “Significado y comprensión en la historia de las ideas de Quentin Skinner”
    In Foro ibero-ideas (2007)
  • João Feres, Jr., “Remarks on the Methodology of the History of Political Thought”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.1 (2008) [restricted access]
  • Petri Koikkalainen, Sami Syrjämäki, entry on “Quentin Skinner”
    from Filosofia.fi
  • Alan Macfarlane, “Interview with Quentin Skinner (January 10th, 2008)”
    D-Space Cambridge University [view the two mp-4 files; read summary text file]
  • Nigel Warburton, “Transcript: Quentin Skinner on Hobbes and the State”
    From Philosophy Bites (2007)
  • Sami Syrjämäki, “Mastery and Liberty. An interview with Quentin Skinner”
    Originally published in niin & näin 3/2008.
  • Jeffrey Collins, “Quentin Skinner’s Hobbes and the Neo-Republican Project”
    Modern Intellectual History 6 (2009)
    [restricted access via Cambridge Journals online]
  • Robert Lamb, “Recent Developments in the Thought of Quentin Skinner and the Ambitions of Contextualism”
    Journal of the Philosophy of History 3 (2009)
  • Emmanuelle Tricoire and Jacques Lévy, “Concepts Only Have Histories” Interview with Quentin Skinner.

Commentaries on Conceptual History

  • C. Knobloch, "...zur Theorie der Begriffsgeschichte aus Sprach..."
    On issues in Begriffsgeschichte, semantics, and discourse analysis.
  • B. Sihag, "Relevance of Begriffsgeschichte to History of Economic Analysis"
    Conference paper (draft) May, 2007
  • J. Feres Jr., "The semantics of asymmetric counterconcepts"
    From Anales of the Iberoamerikanska Institutet. 2005. On the notion of asymmetric counterconcepts and its application for the case of Latin America.
  • J-L Berlanga, "...historia social, e historia de los conceptos politicos"
    From RES PUBLICA 11-12 (2003)
  • F. Coves, "Experienca y politica en la historia conceptual"
    From RES PUBLICA 1(1998)
  • Peter Thiergen, "Probleme russicher Bergriffsgeschichte"
    From STUDIA SLAVICA 52 (2007) [restricted access]
  • Kari Palonen, "The Politics of Conceptual History"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.1 (2005)
  • Jason Edwards, "An Encounter Between R. Koslleck and M. Foucault"
    From JOURNAL OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES 12 (2007) [restricted access]
  • Jose Montoya, "La Historia Conceptual como Filosofia Politica."
    Conference paper, University of Seville 2003
  • Sandro Chignola, "Storia dei Concetti"
    From ENCICLOPEDIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO
  • E. Kreisky, "Textwelten-der Ideologiebegriff Althussers...Koselleck..."
    Online seminar materials from the University of Vienna
  • Henrik Stenius, ed. History of Concepts Newsletter No. 6 2003
    Includes articles by L. Holscher, P. den Boer, K. Palonen, J. Feres.
  • Peter Aronsson, "Possibilities of Conceptual History from Above and Below"
    Conference paper "History Under Debate" Santiago de Compostella, 1999
  • Paolo D'Angelo, "Storia dei concetti"
    From CULTURAL STUDIES.IT online
  • Melvin Richter, "Begriffsgeschichte Today"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK (1999)
  • Jan Ifversen, "Text, Discourse, Concept"
    A reflection on the possibilities of combining conceptual history and discourse analysis.
  • Angela Esterhammer, “Naming and Contingency, and some Implications for
    Begriffsgeschichte”
    From Arcadia 39 (2004) [restricted access]
  • Helge Jordheim, “Philology of the Future, Futures of Philology. Interdisciplinarity,
    Intertemporality and Begriffsgeschichte”
    From Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in Foreign Language Studies (2007)
  • Peter Schöttler: Historians and Discourse Analysis
  • Frank Beck Lassen, Can conceptual history be incorporated into metaphorology – or is ... Conference paper, HPSCG, 2007.
  • Ralph Müller, “Review of Hans Erich Bödeker, ed. Begriffsgeschichte, Diskursgeschichte, Metapherngeschichte” metaphorik.de 11 (2006)
  • Christian Habsmeier, “On the Very Nature of Conceptual History in a Comparative Perspective” Symposium paper, 2006.
  • Jeppe Nevers: Træk af den nyere begrebshistorie
    Article in Danish on recent developments in Begriffsgeschichte

Conceptual History and Linguistics

  • An Introducton to Semiotics
    short introduction to Saussure's basic notions
  • Kai Neubauer, "Semantica Storica"
    From culturalstudies.it online
  • JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS
    Tables of contents and index for volumes 1 (2000) thru 7 (2006).
  • N. Love, LANGUAGE AND HISTORY: AN INTEGRATIONIST PERSPECTIVE
    A book announcement from Routledge on a volume of essays that challenge "orthodox" linguistics and consider the implications for historical analysis.
  • Roy Harris and “Integrationism”
  • Dominic Smyth, "Analysing Semantic Change"
    A Powerpoint presentation.
  • Wikipedia entry on "Semantic Change"
  • Andre Baumunk, "Die Wortfeldtheorie Jost Triers."
    Online summary.
  • Nils Bredsdorff, "Diskurskritik"
    Full book text Roskilde University, 2003
  • Franz Eder, "Historische Diskurse und ihre Analyse..."
    Online article, 2005
  • Johannes Angermuller, "L'analyse du discour en Europe"
    Online seminar paper, 2006
  • Wilkipedia entry on "Structural Linguistics"
  • Wikipedia entry on "Polysemy"
  • R. Janda, B. Joseph, "Of History, Linguistics and Historical Linguistics"
    From HANDBOOK OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
  • Onomasiology Online (OnOn)
    An online linguistic journal
  • Wikipedia entry on "Pragmatics"
  • Andreas Blank, "Words and Concepts in Time"
    From metaphorik.de 1(2001)
  • Wikipedia entry on "Onomasiology"
  • Wikipedia entry on "Discourse Analysis"
  • Dietrich Busse, “Historische Diskurssemantik”
    From A. Stukenbrock, J. Scharloth (Hrsg.) Lingustiche Diskursgeschichte (2000)
  • Historische Diskursanalyse
    Bibibliography in German listing works on discourse (broadly understood) and Begriffsgeschichte

Conceptual History and Political Theory

  • M. Richter, "Conceptual History and Political Theory"
    From POLITICAL THEORY 14 (1986)[restricted access via JSTOR]
  • K. Palonen, "...Implications of the Skinnerian Re-Thinking of...Liberty"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 3 (2007) [restricted access]
  • J. Feres Jr., Political philosophy, ethnology, and time
    A study of the notion of historical handicap.
  • J. Feres Jr., Building a typology of forms of misrecognition
    A reconstruction of the theory of recognition using Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counterconcepts.
  • E. Ellis, "Provisionalism in the Study of Politics"
    Conference paper, "Problems and Methods in the Study of Political Science" Yale, 2002
  • K. Palonen, "Max Weber als Begriffspolitiker"
    From ETHICA & POLITICA 2 (2005).
  • K. Palonen "Politics or the Political: an Historical Perspective..."
    From EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 (2007) [restricted access]
  • K. Palonen, "Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life"
    From EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY 4 (2005) [restricted access]
  • S. Chignola, "Historie des concepts politiques et philosophie politique"
    Videotaped presentations from Fondation de Maison des sciences des hommes [in Italian]
  • A. Thomas, "Liberal Republicanism and the Role of Civil Society
    On contemporary "republicanisms," including Q. Skinner's and P. Petit's.
  • Ruth Abbey, "Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?"
    From NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 27 (2005) [restricted access]
  • Cecilia Lesgart, "Innovacion Conceptual y Cambio Politico"
    Conference paper, Sociedad Argentina de Analisis Politico
  • Mauro Barberis, "Liberdad y Liberalismo"
    From ISONOMIA 16 (2002)
  • Ivan Denes, "Three Concepts of Liberty"
    Online article, 2005
  • James Tully, "Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity"
    From POLITICAL THEORY 30 (2002)[restricted access]
  • S. Chignola,"Redescribing Political Concepts: History of Concepts..."
    From CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS 1.2 pp. 245-51
  • Terence Ball, "Must Political Theory Be Historical?"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS 2.1 pp. 7-18
  • R. Mauro, "Political Science Education and Conceptual Analysis of Ideology"
    Conference paper, American Political Science Association 2007
  • Michael Freeden, "What Should the 'Political' in Political Theory Explore"?
    From JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 13 (2005) [restricted access]
  • Josiah Ober, “The Original Meaning of ‘Democracy’: Capacity to Do Things, Not Majority Rule.”
    Papes delivered at the APSA, 2006
  • Dean Mathiowetz, “The Juridical Subject of ‘Interest’”
    From POLITICAL THEORY 35 (2007)
  • Giuseppe Duso, “From Conceptual History to Political Philosophy” Conference paper,
    Aberdeen University, 2007
  • Melissa Lane, “Interpreting Political Thought” in Alan Finlayson, ed. Contemporary Political Thought (2004): 69-79
    [via Google Books]
  • Stephanie Lawson, “Political Studies and the Contextual Turn: A Methodological/Normative Critique” Political Studies 56 (2008)
  • Elizabeth Ellis, “Political Theory and the History of Concepts: Mining the Begriffsgeschichtlichen Data” Conference paper, APSA, 2007

History of Concepts and Intellectual History

  • Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi and Péter Apor (eds.), Narratives Unbound
    Book review by Ferenc Laczó. Full book title: Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Budapest: CEU Press, 2007.
  • M. Richter, "Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Ideas"
    From the JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 48 (1987) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • L. Kontler, "Translation and Comparison: Early Modern, Current Perspectives
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 3 (2007) [restricted access]
  • B. Trencsényi, "Languages of Politics: Studies in Intellectual History"
    Book review in English, by Ferenc Laczó. The book is in Hungarian, original title: A Politika Nyelvei - Eszmetörténeti Tanulmányok, published in 2007.
  • C. Vilanou, "Historia Conceptual e Historia Intellectual"
    From ARS BREVIS (2006)
  • L. Melve, "Intentions, Concepts and Reception...the History of Ideas"
    From HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT 27 (2006) [restricted access]
  • M.Thompson, "Reception Theory and the Interpretation of Historical Meaning"
    On the implications of Rezeptiongeschichte for the history of political thought.
  • J. Vincent, "Concepts et contextes de l'historie intellectuelle britannique
    From CAIRN (2003) online. Review of S. Collini et al. from the "Sussex School."
  • E. Palti, "De la Historia des Ideas a la Historia...Lenguajes Politicos"
    Online article assessing the implications of conceptual history and intellectual history of/for Latin America.
  • Francois Dosse, "Introduction" to La marche des idees
    Book abstract for HISTORIE DES INTELLECTUELS, HISTORIE INTELLECTUEL.
  • Richard Macksey, "The History of Ideas at 80"
    From MLN 17 (2002) [restricted access]
  • Historicum.net on "Friedrich Meinecke"
    On the founder of "ideengeschichte".
  • Wikipedia entry on "Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte"
  • Wikipedia entry on "The Linguistic Turn"
  • P. Mouritsen, "The Intellectual History of Politics"
    Article summaries from POLITOLOGISKE
  • "Discourse on Postmodernism and History"
    An Institute for History Reseach (London) e-forum on postmodernism and historiography.
  • Hekki Saari, " Ankersmit's Postmodernist Theory of Historical Narrativity"
    From RETHINKING HISTORY 9 (2005) [restricted access]
  • Vicki Rea on White's Metahistory
    Online review of White's METAHISTORY: how historians "make" history.
  • Rhetoric, Poetics, Narrativity, Historiography as Text
    A bibliography on textualists and textualisms.
  • Wiklipedia entry on "Hayden White"
  • Mark Bevir, "On Tradition"
    From HUMANITIAS 13 (2000)
  • K. Chamberland, review of E. Clark "History, Theory and Text..."
    From CERCLES (2006)
  • A. Stepukonis, "...Birth of the Historiography of Ideas: Arthur O. Lovejoy"
    From LOGOS 42 (2005)
  • Mark Bevir, "Mind and Method in the History of Ideas"
    Online reprint from HISTORY AND THEORY 36 (1997)
  • Steinar Stjerno, SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA
    "Introduction: to Study the Idea of Solidarity"
  • Paolo D'Angelo, "Storia delle idee"
    From CULTURAL STUDIES.IT online
  • Wikipedia entry on "The History of Ideas"
  • Wikipedia entry on "Arthur O. Lovejoy"
  • Harvard Square Library on "Arthur Lovejoy"
  • Roundtable review of Mark Bevir, LOGIC OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
    An IHR rountable, with comments by A. Munslow, S. Stuurman, A. Megill, K. Palonen, F. Ankersmitt.
  • "The History of Ideas" Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
    [restricted access]
  • Petri Koikkalainen: Interview with Mark Bevir
    Online transcript
  • László Kontler, “A Methodological Inquiry into Reception in the History of Ideas”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.1 (2008) [restricted access]
  • Robert Darnton, “Discourse and Diffusion”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 1.1 (2005)
  • Quentin Skinner, “On Intellectual History and the History of Books”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 1.1 (2005)
  • Conrad Vilanou: Historia Conceptuale, Historia Intelectual

History of Concepts: the Dutch Project

  • F. Grijzenhout, ERGOED: DIE GESCHIEDENIS VON EEN BEGRIP
    A sample chapter on the relationship of arts and images to the history of concepts can be downloaded from this page.
  • K. Tilmans, "The Dutch Concept of Citizen..."
    A translated version of the "Introduction" to Kloek and Tilmans, eds. BURGER (2002)
  • K. Tilmans, W. Velema, "Towards a European History of Concepts..."
    Research project abstract
  • Amsterdam University Press, Volumes from the Dutch Project
  • R. Vanderstraeten, review of P. den Boer, BESCHAVING
    From PEDAGOGIEK-ONLINE 2(2002)
  • K. Tilmans, W. Velema, "Applying Begriffsgeschichte to Dutch History..."
    In CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS 2.1 pp. 43-59
  • Pim den Boer, “Towards a Comparative History of Concepts: Civilisation and Beschaving”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 3.2 (2007) [restricted access]
  •  F.E. Beemon, “We Have No Such Word: The Concept of Sovereignty and the Rise of the Dutch States General, 1578-79”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 3.2 (2007) [restricted access]

History of Concepts: the Finnish Project(s)

  • P. Ahonen, "The Finnish Orientation in the History of Political Theory..."
    From HALDUSKULTUUR 7 (2006)
  • P. Kettunen, " Yhteiskunta: 'Society' in Finnish"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 4 (2000)
  • T. Pulkkinen, "Valtio--on the Conceptual History of the Finnish State"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 4 (2000)
  • M. Hyvarinen, "The Fictional Versions of 'Valta' (Power)
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 2 (1998)
  • Henrik Stenius "The Finish Citizen. How a Translation Emasculated the Concept"
    From FINNISH YEARBOOK 2 (1998)

History of Concepts: the French School(s)

  • M. Belissa, "Des notions concepts en revolution"
    From ANNALES HISTORIQUES DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE 337 (2006). Review of J. Guilhaumou and R. Monnier, eds. DE NOTIONS CONCEPTS EN REVOLUTION.
  • J. Guilhaumou, "La Revolution francaise et la rupture des Temps modernes"
    From REVOLUTION FRANCAISE.net
  • R. Monnier, "Use and Role of the Concepts of Tyranny and Tyrannicide..."
    In CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS 2.1 (2006)
  • J. Guilhaumou, "La Revolution francaise a l'horizon du mouvement social..."
    From REVOLUTION FRANCAISE.NET (2005)
  • J. Guilhaumou, R. Monnier, "Des notions concepts en revolution..."
    Introduction to collected papers from 2002 meeting at the Sorbonne.
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, Interview with P. Rosanvallon
    From REVISTA DE LIBROS (2006)
  • J. Jennings, " Rosanvallon and a Conceptual History of the Political"
    Conference paper ECPR, 2000.
  • P. Rosanvallon, "Historie moderne et contemporaine du politique"
    College de France lectures 2003
  • P. Costopolous, P. Rosanvallon, " History of the Word Democracy in France"
    From JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY 6 (1995) [restricted access]
  • Lucien Jaume," Le libéralisme français après la Révolution"
    From HISTORIA-CONSTITUCIONAL (2003). Lucien Jaume is one of the leading historians of political thought in France and a specialist on liberalism..
  • L'histoire et l'historien face au quantitatif (ENS)
    Bibliography of French works on history inspired by lexicometry
  • Raymonde Monnier: Républicanisme et révolution
    From ensmedia (2001). Video of lecture by Raymonde Monnier.
  • M. Deleplace, "Apprentissages conceptuels et analyse du discours..."
    Conference paper, AIRDF Quebec, 2004
  • Jacques Guilhaumou, "L'Analyse de Discours et la Lexicometrie
    From LEXIOMETRICA.
  • J. Guilhaumou, "De l'historie des concepts a l'historie linguistique..."
    From CAIRN online (2000)
  • R. Monnier, "Democratie representative ou republique democratique"
    From ANNALES HISTORIQUES DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE (2001)
  • Javier Fernández Sebastián, Intellectual History and Democracy: An Interview with Pierre Rosanvallon
    From JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 68 (2007) [restricted access via Project Muse]
  • Raymonde Monnier, “The Concept of civilisation from Enlightenment to Revolution: an Ambiguous Transfer”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.1 (2008) [restricted access]

History of Concepts: the Korean Project

  • Hunmi Lee,  Struggle for meaning: "Conceptual history and the study of Korean Political Thought in the Early Modern Period... " Conference paper, HPSCG, 2007

History of Concepts: the Spanish and Ibero-American Project

  • Joao Feres, Jr. "For a Critical Conceptual History of Brazil..."
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.2 (2005)
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, G. Capellan, "Notion of Modernity in 19th c. Spain"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.2 (2005)
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, G. Capellan, "Notion of Modernity in 19th c. Spain"
    From EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY 3 (2004) [restricted access]
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, "Estado, Nacion Y Patria En El Lenguaje Politico...
    A lexicometric study in the French ENS-St. Cloud style.
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, "El mundo atlantico como laboratorio conceptual..."
    From FORO IBERO-IDEAS. A prospectus for the Ibero-American project.
  • Foro Ibero-Ideas
    Online forum and resource base for conceptual history of Iberia and Ibero-America.
  • V. Oieni, "Notas Para Una Historia Conceptual De Los Discursos Politicos"
    Online article
  • Marcelo Jasmin, "Historia dos Concetos et Teoria Political e Social."
    From REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS 20(2005)
  • Joao Feres, "La historia de un contraconcepto: Latin America en los EEUU
    From FORO IBERO-IDEAS
  • Javier Fernández-Sebastián, "Política antigua/política moderna...
    From FORO IBERO-IDEAS
  • J. Fernandez-Sebastian, "Qu'est-ce qu'écrire un dictionnaire des concepts?"
    Online article
  • Javier Fernández Sebastián, “The Concept of Civilization in Spain 1754-2000: From Progress to Identity”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.1 (2008) [restricted access]

Online Collections and Journals

  • CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS
    For Vol. 3 no. 1 on [restricted access]
  • ZEITSCHRIFT FUR IDEENGESCHICHTE
    [limited coverage]
  • ASTERION
    [revue electronique de philosophie, historie des idees, pensee politique]
  • DICTIONARY OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
  • ARCHIV FUR BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE
    [limited content]
  • CONTRIBUTIONS
    For Vol. 1, nos. 1 and 2; Vol. 2, no. 1
  • REDESCRIPTIONS:YEARBOOK OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AND CONCEPTUAL HISTORY
    limited content

Research Resources for the History of Concepts

  • HISTORICHES LEXICON DER SCHWEIZ
    Also in French and Italian.
  • EURO DOCS
    Online transcriptions, translations and facsimilies from across Europe, medieval to modern eras.
  • SCOTS PROJECT: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
    Sources from 1945 on.
  • MED: MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
    Searchable database for sources between 1100-1500.
  • LEME: LEXICONS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
    Searchable database for use entries from 1480-1702. [access is limited]
  • HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF ENGLISH
    Online project still underway. Data drawn from the OED.
  • M.J. Burke, "Conceptual History in the U.S.: a Missing "National Project"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.2 On available databases and online resources for Anglo-American conceptual history.
  • FRANTEXT Database
    [restricted access]
  • Dictionaries, Etymologies and Lingustic Atlases Online
  • Library of Congress: American Memory Project
  • Avalon Project Yale Law School
  • American Periodical Series Online (APS) (restricted access via ProQuest)
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO) (restricted access via Chadwyck Healey)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (restricted access via Gale)
  • Corpus Del Espaňol
  • Digitale Bibliotek Deutsche Klassiker im WWW [restricted access via Chadwyck Healey]
  • LexisNexis CourtLink (restricted access via LexisNexis)
  • LexisNexis News and Business Services (restricted access via LexisNexis)
  • Library of Congress, American Memory, “A Century of Lawmaking”

The Practice of Conceptual History: Essays on Concepts

  • J. Feres Jr., "A Constituição de um Outro Americano"
    From Teoria e Sociedade. Article in Portuguese.
  • J. Feres Jr., "El Concepto de América Española en Estados Unidos"
    From the journal Historia Contemporánea. In Spanish.
  • J. Feres Jr. "The history of counterconcepts: 'Latin America' as an example
    From the HPSCG Bulletin
  • Sandro Chignola, “Begriffsgeschichte in Italy: on the Logic of Modern Political Concepts”
    The Centre for Modern Though, Aberdeen University
  • Jörn Leonhard, “From European Liberalism to the Languages of Liberalism:
    the Semantics of “Liberalism” in European Comparison
    From Redescriptions 8 (2004)
  • Wikipedia entry on conceptual history
  • Ralph Müller, review of Hans Erich Bödeker, Hg. Begriffsgeschichte, Diskursgeschichte, Metapherngeschichte
    metaphorik.de (2006)
  • Michael Freeden, “Ideologies and Conceptual History”
    From Journal of Political Ideologies 2 (1997) [restricted access]

Varieties of Conceptual Histories

  • A. Heidenheimer, "Politics, Policy and Policey as Concepts..."
    From REVIEW OF POLITICS 48 (1986) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • J. Borchert, "Translation, Transformation and Reception of Max Weber..."
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 3 (2007) On Weber's lecture "Politik als Beruf" [restricted access]
  • Melvin Richter, "The Concept of Despotism and l'abus des mots"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 3 (2007) [restricted access]
  • D.Wahrman, "... Parliamentary Reporting and Languages of Class..."
    From PAST AND PRESENT 136 (1992) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Keith Tribe, "Max Weber's 'Conceptual Preface' to GEH"
    From MAX WEBER STUDIES (2006)
  • Hent Kalmo, "How Comparable are Legal Concepts?"
    From JURIDICA INTERNATIONAL 11 (2006)
  • M Drolet,"Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on Power and the State"
    From HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS 11 (2006) [restricted access]
  • R. Young "The Concept of Psychopathology: a Critique"
    From HUMAN NATURE REVIEW online.
  • G. E. Berrios, "Classifications in Pyschiatry: a Conceptual History"
    From AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PYSCHIATRY 33 (1999) article abstract
  • G. E. Berrios, "Erotomania: A Conceptual History"
    From HITORY OF PYSCHIATRY 13 (2002) article abstract
  • G. E. Berrios, "Delirium and Confusion in the 19th C... conceptual history"
    From BRITISH JOURNAL OF PYSCHIATRY 139 (1981) [restricted access]
  • P. Stirk, "The Concept of the State in German Political Thought"
    From DEBATTE 14 (2006) [restricted access]
  • D. Bates, "...Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Institution"
    From MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 3 (2006) [restricted access]
  • M. Louma-Aho, "C. Schmitt and the Transformation of the Political Subject"
    From THE EUROPEAN LEGACY 5 (2000) [restricted access]
  • Ben Jackson, "The Conceptual History of Social Justice"
    From POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW 3 (2005) [restricted access]
  • Pietro Costa, "Cittadinanza e storiografia..."
    From HISTORIA CONSTITUCTIONAL 6 (2005)
  • J. Strang, "Why Nordic Democracy: Positivism...Crisis of the '30s and '40s"
    Centre for Nordic Studies, Renvall Institute, Helsinki University 2006.
  • M. Teeuwen, "From Jindo to Shinto: a Concept Takes Shape"
    From JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES 29 (2002)
  • L. Malksoo, "The Context of International Legal Arguments..."
    International Law and Justice Working Paper, NYU, 2005. On August von Bulmerincq (1822-1890), and his concept of 'politics.'
  • B. Wittrock, "Social Theory and Global History..."
    From THESIS ELEVEN 65 (2001) [restricted access]
  • H. Halkier, "Discourse, Institutionalism and Public Policy"
    A comparison of approaches to discourse analysis, including R. Koselleck's, and a case study application to Scottish regional planning policy during the Thatcher years.
  • A. Sartori, "The Resonance of 'Culture'...Global Concept-History
    From COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY 47 (2005) [restricted access]
  • G. Markus, "Culturs: the Making and the Make-Up of a Concept"
    From DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 18 (1993) [restricted access]
  • M. Szabo, Z. G. Szucs, "Discourse and Politics: Two Essays..."
    Marton Szabo, "Publicistic Political Science in Hungary in the 1990s"; Zoltan Gabor Szucs, "Politics of Time: Questions of Political Conceptualization in History" (2006)
  • A. Norval, "The Things We do with Words...the Analysis of Ideology."
    From BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 30 (2000) review article [restricted access]
  • I. Oren and T. Solomon, "Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Conceptual History"
    Conference paper, APSA 2006
  • M.P. Friedman, "Toward a Conceptual History of 'America' in European..."
    From JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 40 (2007) [restricted access]
  • A. Kedar, "Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Concept..."
    Conference paper, U. C. Berkeley 2007
  • P. den Boer, "Civilization: Comparing Concepts and Identities"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.1(2005)
  • M. Richter, "Analyzing, Translating and Comparing Political Concepts..."
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.1 (2005)
  • Uffe Jakobsen, "The Concept of Citizen in Danish Political Discourse"
    From CONTRIBUTIONS 1.2 (2005)
  • Niklas Olsen, "Kildekritikkens begrebshistorie"
    on work by Jeppe Nevers
  • A.Semyonov, "Conceptual Change and the Problem of Political Dialogue..."
    From the St. Petersburge Center for the History of Ideas
  • Jens Bartelson, "Three Concepts of Globalization"
    From INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY 15 (2000) [resticted access]
  • Timothy Cheek, "Notes on the Conceptual Domains of CCP Ideology..."
    "Working Papers" East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University (1995)
  • Lene Koch, "Past Futures: on the Conceptual History of 'Eugenics'..."
    From TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 18 (2006) [restricted access]
  • J. BeDuhn,"Clarifications of Austin and Skinner for the Study of Religions"
    From METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION 14.1 (2002) [restricted access]
  • Oili Pulkkinen, "The Labyrinth of Politics: a Conceptual Approach..."
    Doctoral Thesis, Jyvaskyla University 2003.
  • B. Costea et al., "Play at Work: Questions of Historical Interpretation"
    Conference paper, Management and Organizational History conference, Cambridge 2005.
  • Bertel Nygaard, "A Long View of Conceptions of Revolution, Social Agency...
    Conference paper, "Revolutions: Concepts, Discourse and Practices of Revolutionary Action in Our Time" 2006.
  • Anthony Pym, "On History in Formal Conceptualizations of Translation"
    Conference paper, "Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts" 2005. A HPSCG conference
  • "Gewaltenteilung"
    From the Historiches Lexicon der Schweiz.
  • Jurgen Finger, "Gau (neuzeitliche Begriffsgeschichte)
    From the Historiches Lexicon Bayerns.
  • R. Mueller, Review of Boedeker, ed. Begriffsgeschichte...
    From metaphorik.de 11(2006)
  • E. Fein and S. Matzke, "Zivilgesellschaft: Konzept und Bedeutung..."
    Free University of Berlin, "Working Papers" 1997.
  • Oleg Kharkhordin, "What is a State: the Russian Concept of Gosudarstvo..."
    From HISTORY AND THEORY 40 (2001) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • Nick Jardine, "Uses and Abuses of Anachronism in the History of Science"
    From HISTORY OF SCIENCE 38 (2002) [full text]
  • Ivan Denes, "Three Concepts of Liberty"
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  • Paul Sereni, "Marx en contexte..."
  • Sandro Chignola, "Historia de los conceptos, historia constitucional..."
    From RES PUBLICA 11-12 (2003) [full text]
  • M. Hyvarinen, "Toward a Conceptual History of Narrative"
  • M. Freeden, "Introduction" to LIBERAL LANGUAGES....
    Book chapter
  • Douglas Howland, "Translating Liberty in 19th century Japan."
    From the JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 62 (2001) [restricted access]
  • C. Laborde, "Concept of the State in British and French Political Thought"
    From POLITICAL STUDIES 48 (2000) [restricted access]
  • R. Oetjen, review of K. Raaflaub, Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece
    From BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW 37 (2005) [full text]
  • B. Costea et al., "Conceptual History and ...Managerial Ideologies
    From MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY 1 (2006) [restricted access]
  • Petri Koikalainen, "Conceptual-Historical Analysis of Present Day Politics"
    Conference paper, Normative Implications of thte Conceptual Turn: Discourse and History in Political Theory and Political Science 2006.
  • Andreas Musolff, "Metaphor and Conceptual Evolution"
    From metaphorik.de 7 (2004) [full text]
  • Kirsten Refsing, "Are We Certain that We Know What Our Words Mean?"
    H-Net review of D. Howland, TRANSLATING LIBERTY IN 19THC JAPAN.
  • Pietro Costa, "Lawyers and the Vital Relationship between Past and Present"
    From GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 2(2006) review article
  • Wolfram Bergande, "Aesthetische Grundbegiffe"
    From COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (2003) review article
  • Hans Boedeker, " 'Europe' in the Discourse of the Sciences of State.."
    Conference paper, Atti del seminario internazionale: "Immagini d'Italia e d'Europa nella letteratura e nella documentazione di viaggio nel XVIII e nel XIX secolo."
  • Nicholas Davey, "The Language of 20th Century Art: a Conceptual History"
    From BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS 42 (2002) [restricted access]
  • Matthias Klaes, "Conceptual History of the Emergence of Bounded Rationality
    From HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 37 (2005) [restricted access] [click on "manual download" on left]
  • James Farr, "Social Capital: a Conceptual History"
    From POLITICAL THEORY 32 (2004) [resticted access]
  • P. Ihalainen, "The Discourse of Political Pluralism in Early 18thc England"
    Book abstract
  • Kari Palonen, "Political Thought and Action in Rhetorical Perspective"
    Paper abstract
  • Kari Palonen, "Two Concepts of Politics, Two Histories of a Concept?"
    Conference Paper, ECPR 2000.
  • Review of H. Bödeker, Begriffsgeschichte, Diskursgeschichte...
    H-Soz-u-Kult review
  • Carl Marklund, “Towards a Comparative Conceptual History of Social Engineering”
    Paper presented at the HPSCG Conference, Istanbul, 2007
  • Max Paul Friedman, “Toward a Conceptual History of ‘America’ in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914”
    Journal of Social History 40 (2007) [restricted access via History Cooperative]
  • Giuseppe Duso, “Quali concetti politici per l’Europa?”
    From SCIENZA & POLITICA 33 (2005)
  • Michele Spanò, review of Sandro Chignola, Fragile cristallo. Per la storia del concetto di società.
    From SYZETESIS (2005)
  • Marina Svensson, Debating Human Rights in China:  a Conceptual and Political History
    [via Google Books] (2002)
  • Angus Gowland, “Ancient and Renaissance Rhetoric and the History of Concepts”
    From Redescriptions (2002)
  • Add: Lauri Mälksoo, “August von Bulmerincq…and His Concept of Politics”
    IILJ Working Paper No. 2005-13
  • Ole Wæver, “Peace and Security: Two Evolving Concepts and Their Changing Relationship” in G. Brauch, et al. GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: RECONCEPTUALIZING SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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  • Douglas Dow, “Decline as a Form of Conceptual Change”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.1 (2008) [restricted access]
  • Risto Wallin, “Movement in the Key Concepts of International Relations”
    From Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 4 (2007)
    From Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 4 (2007)
  • Márton Szabó, et al. “On Politics: Rhetoric, Discourse and Concepts”
    Instittute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Working Papers (2006/2007)
  • Sabine Selchow, “The ‘Global Dimension’ of Contemporary Politics: an Argument for Taking ‘Global’ Seriously
    IBEI Working Papers 2007/08
  • MarinPablo Nocero, “Aproximaciones para una historia de la formulación sociológica del concepto de solidaridad”
  • Add: P. Murphy, J. Liao, H. Welsch, “A Conceptual History of Entrepreneurial Thought”
    From Journal of Management History 12 (2006) [restricted access]
  • Pasi Ihalainen, “The ‘Nation’ and the ‘People’ in Late 18th-century Northwestern Europe: Proposing a Comparative Conceptual History”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 3.2 (2007) [restricted access]
  • Patricia Springborg, “Classical Modeling and the Circulation of Concepts in Early Modern Britain”
    From Contributions to the History of Concepts 1.2 (2005)
  • Matthias Klaes, “Begriffsgeschichte: Between the Scylla of Conceptual and the Charybdis of Institutional History of Economics”
    From Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23 (2001) [restricted access]
  • Karsten Rohr, “Begriff und Begriffsgeschichte der Stadt im Mittelatler…nach Max Weber” 
    GRIN Verlag e-book [restricted access]
  • Ulrich Hemmel, “Zur Begriffsgeschichte von Religiosität”
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  • Jonas I. Meyer, Postmoderne-Begriffsgeschichte eines über- und unterdeterminierten Begriffs (2007)
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  • Albert O. Hirschman, “Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual History”
    From World Politics 45 (1993) [restricted access via JSTOR]
  • K. Danzinger, “Making Social Psychology Experimental: a Conceptual History, 1920-1970”
    From Journal of the History of Behavioral Science 36 (2000) [restricted access]
  • Victor Neumann, “Natiunea: semnificatiile unui concept istoric” (I)
    From Observator Cultural (2001)
  • Victor Neumann, “Natiunea: semnificatiile unui concept istoric” (II)
    From Observator Cultural (2001)
  • Victor Neumann, “Natiunea: semnificatiile unui concept istoric” (III)
    From Observator Cultural (2001)
  • B. Sentiano, “Conceptualizing Civil Society”
    From International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law 10 (2007)
  • Balbir S. Sihag: Relevance of Begriffsgeschichte to History of Economic Analysis
  • Matthias Klaes and Esther-Mirjam Sent : A Conceptual History of the Emergence of Bounded Rationality
    History of Political Economy 2005 37(1):27-59; (restricted acces)
  • Christian Habsmeier, “Concepts that Make Multiple Modernities: The Conceptual Modernization of China in a Historical and Critical Perspective” 
  • Michael Eggers, Matthias Rothe (Hg.) Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Begriffsgeschichte (2009) “Einleitung” 
  • Vera Dubina, “Review of N. E. Koposov, ed. Historical Concepts and Political Ideas in Russia in the 16th to 20th Centuries;  Peter Thiergen, ed. Russian Conceptual History of the Modern Period” Kritika 9 (2008)  [restricted access via Project Muse]
  • Julia Harfensteller, Koselleck applied: the distinction between Language and performance Conference paper, HPSCG, 2007
  • Conrad Vilanou I Torrano, “Historia conceptual e Historia de la Educacíon” Historia de la Educacíon  (2006)

  • David Sorkin, “Emancipation and Assimilation: Two Concepts and their Application to German-Jewish History” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 35 (1990)  [restricted access via Oxford Journals online]
  • T. Skovmøller Poulsen, “Here, There, and Everywhere: A Conceptual Approach to Risk Communication” Conference paper, International Communication Association, 2006. 
  • Francis Dupuis-Déri “The Political Power of Words: The Birth of Pro-Democratic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century in the United States and France” Political Studies 52 (2004)  [restricted access via Wiley Journals]
  • Ulrich Grober, “Deep Roots—a Conceptual History of Sustained Development” Seminar paper, WZB, Berlin 2007 
  • Márton Szabó , “The Communist Worker as a New Citizen in History. An Essay on the Three Phases of Hungarian Socialismt” In Redescriptions. Yearbook of political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory. 2008 vol 12.
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  • Crossroads: Writing Conceptual History Beyond the Nation-State
  • Centre for Political Ideologies, Oxford University
  • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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  • Grupo de Historia das Ideias e Conceitos Politicos
  • Folger Institute, Center for the History of British Political Thought
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  • University of Jyvaskyla, Political Thought and Conceptual Change Centre
  • Transnational Concepts, Transfers and the Challenge of the Peripheries [HPSCG 2007Conference, Instanbul]
  • Global-Historical Diffusion of Western Concepts, HPSCG 11th Conference