Politics and Conceptual Histories Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives

The international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present Kari Palonen has shaped and supported this change with his emphasis on its role for the study of politics.

The chapters of this volume offer a testimony of the changing awareness, new thematics and multiple research orientations of this story. Palonen discusses the works of Reinhart Koselleck and Quentin Skinner as partly competing, partly converging approaches to conceptual history. He applies both Koselleck's time-centred and Skinner's rhetorical perspectives in his own studies on theorising politics. Simultaneously he emphasises the heuristic impulse of both approaches for the study of political practices, for the reorientation of parliamentary studies in particular.

1. Interview with Kari Palonen: 5 Questions on Intellectual History (2013)

I Perspectives on Conceptual Change

2. An Application of Conceptual History to Itself: From Method to Theory in Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte (1997)

3. Quentin Skinner's Rhetoric of Conceptual Change (1997)

4. Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives on Conceptual Change: Theses on Quentin Skinner and Reinhart Koselleck (1999)

5. History of Concepts as a Style of Political Theorizing: Quentin Skinner's and Reinhart Koselleck's Subversion of Normative Political Theory (2002)

6. A Train Reading Marathon. Retrospective Remarks on Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (2006)

7. The Politics of Conceptual History (2005)

8. Parliamentary Sources in the Comparative Study of Conceptual History: methodological aspects and illustrations of a research proposal (with Pasi Ihalainen) (2009)

II Concepts, Time and History

9. Translation, Politics and Conceptual Change (2003)

10. Reinhart Koselleck on Translation, Anachronism and Conceptual Change (2012)

11. Political Times and the Rhetoric of Democratization (2008)

12. Koselleck's Two Visions of History. Review of Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte (2011)

13. Contingency, Political Theory and Conceptual History (2011)

III Rhetoric of Political Disputes

14. Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life (2005)

15. John Pocock and Quentin Skinner. The Machiavellian and the Weberian Moment (2009)

16. Liberty is Too Precious a Concept to Be Left to the Liberals: Review article on Quentin Skinner, Liberty Before Liberalism (1998)

17. Voting and Liberty. Contemporary Implications of the Skinnerian Re-thinking of Political Liberty (2007)

18. Quentin Skinner's “Rhetorical Turn” and the Chances for Political Thought (2013)

19. Towards a History of Parliamentary Concepts (2012)

20. Quentin Skinner as 'Parliamentary Debater' in the Republic of Letters (2013)

21. Postscript: Two Decades of Conceptual Histories

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