Conceptual History in the European Space (eBook)

Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London. His main interests are the nature of political thinking, the analysis of ideologies, and the study of liberal thought from the 19th century onwards. His books include Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach (1996), Liberal Languages (2005), The Political Theory of Political Thinking: The Anatomy of a Practice (2013) and Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction (2015). He is the founding editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies.

Javier Fernández-Sebastián is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country. He has published extensively on modern intellectual and conceptual history, with a particular focus on Spain and the Iberian world. He serves on the editorial board of various journals as well as the series International Archives of the History of Ideas with Springer Verlag. He has recently edited the volumes Political Concepts and Time: New Approaches to Conceptual History (2011) and La Aurora de la Libertad. Los primeros liberalismos en el mundo iberoamerican (2012).

Willibald Steinmetz is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Bielefeld University. He has published widely on conceptual history and is co-editor of the book series Historische Semantik with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Among his publications are the edited volumes “Politik”: Situationen eines Wortgebrauchs im Europa der Neuzeit (2007), Political Languages in the Age of Extremes (2011) and Historische Semantik des Politischen: Vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, with Ulrich Meier and Martin Papenheim (2012).

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Introduction: Conceptual History: Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities
Willibald Steinmetz and Michael Freeden

Chapter 1. Europe at Different Speeds: Asynchronicities and Multiple Times in European Conceptual History
Helge Jordheim

Chapter 2. Multiple Transformations: Temporal Frameworks for a European Conceptual History
Willibald Steinmetz

Chapter 3. Concepts and Debates: Rhetorical Perspectives on Conceptual Change
Kari Palonen

Chapter 4. Conceptual History, Ideology and Language
Michael Freeden

Chapter 5. Transnational Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism and Europe
Jani Marjanen

Chapter 6. Conceptual History: The Comparative Dimension
Jörn Leonhard

Chapter 7. Concepts, Contests and Contexts: Conceptual History and the Problem of Translatability
László Kontler

Chapter 8. Conceptualizing Spaces within Europe: The Case of Meso-Regions
Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi

Chapter 9. Conceptualizing Modernity in Multi- and Intercultural Spaces: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
Victor Neumann

Chapter 10. Concepts in a Nordic Periphery
Henrik Stenius

Conclusions: Setting the Agenda for a European Conceptual History
Javier Fernández-Sebastián

Index