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Jens Bartelson

Jens Bartelson

Professor

Jens Bartelson

Philosophy and history in the study of political thought

Författare

  • Jens Bartelson

Summary, in English

This article analyzes how the relationship between philosophy and history has been conceived within the study of political thought, and how different ways of conceiving this relationship in turn have affected the definition of the subject matter as well as the choice of methods within this field. My main argument is that the ways in which we conceive this relationship is dependent on the assumptions we make about the ontological status of concepts and their meaning. I start by discussing the widespread view that philosophy and history ought to be viewed as distinct if not incompatible ways of studying political thought, and then go on to describe the view that philosophical and historical approaches should be conceived of as identical or inseparable. I end this article by suggesting that these approaches rather should be viewed as mutually constitutive for the benefit of a more coherent study of political thought.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

101-124

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of the Philosophy of History

Volym

1

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Brill

Ämne

  • Political Science
  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Nyckelord

  • Conceptual history
  • Contextualism
  • Discourse analysis
  • Hermeneutics
  • Political theory
  • Semantics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1872-261X