Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change

"How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? This ambitious study reassesses the main tenets of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge from the 17th century onwards"--

Introduction: From the 'history of ideas' to the 'new intellectual history,' and beyond; 1. Pocock, Skinner and the 'historiographical revolution'; 2. The Republican genealogy and the normative temptation; 3. The problem of conceptual change; 4. Conceptual history: its philosophical foundations; 5. Koselleck's Begriffsgechichte: between social and conceptual history; 6. Hans Blumenberg and the theory of nonconceptuality; 7. From structuralism to poststructuralism: Pierre Rosanvallon and the 'conceptual history of the political'; 8. Foucault's archaeology of knowledge; 9. The archaeological project and the ignored epistemic mutation; 10. Behind the structures and the subject: the 'event'; Conclusion: the 'new intellectual history' and the dynamics of de-substantialization of concepts.