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Contributions to the History of Concepts
File:CHoC issues.jpg
DisciplineConceptual history/History of Concepts
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySinai Rusinek, Margrit Pernau
Publication details
History2005–present
Publisher
Berghahn Journals (United States)
FrequencyBi-Annual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4CHoC
Indexing
ISSN1807-9326 (print)
1874-656X (web)
OCLC no.750524538
Links


Contributions to the History of Concepts (CHoC) is the international platform for studies in Conceptual history. An academic, peer-reviewed journal of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG),[1] CHoC appears twice a year and is published by Berghahn Journals. It is hosted and sponsored by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.[2]

The journal serves as a platform for theoretical and methodological articles as well as empirical studies on the history of concepts and their social, political, and cultural contexts. It aims to promote the dialogue between the history of concepts and other disciplines, such as intellectual history, history of knowledge and science, linguistics, translation studies, history of political thought and discourse analysis.

Background

Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, a shift has taken place in the academic study of political and social thought. In particular the belief that concepts are timeless has been replaced by an emphasis on their historicity and temporality. The so-called linguistic turn has played an important role in this process. The changing and contested nature of central concepts of culture, society and politics is a point of departure for scholars to analyze concepts as sites of action around which vocabularies, rhetoric and discourses of political language turn. Prominent methodologies, such as conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) associated with Reinhart Koselleck and contextual intellectual history associated with Quentin Skinner turn to the analysis of key issues in the humanities and social sciences.[3]

Publication History

When the History of Political and Social Concepts Group was founded in 1998,[4] it established a History of Concepts Newsletter. The Newsletter was first published at the Huizinga Institute at the University of Amsterdam, and then at the Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies at Helsinki University. In 2005, as the community of scholars interested in conceptual history continued to grow,[5] the Newsletter was replaced by a journal, Contributions to the History of Concepts, in order to accommodate a growing community of interests, and to serve as a platform for scholarly discussion and the exchange of information.[6] The journal’s first and founding editor was Professor João Feres, Jr. of the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). In its first years the journal was hosted and sponsored by IUPERJ, then also published by Brill between 2007 and 2010, when it moved to be published by Berghahn journals and to be hosted and sponsored by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

References

  1. ^ The History of Political and Social Concepts Group Website
  2. ^ Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
  3. ^ [1] Melvin Richter, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1995
  4. ^ Programmatic Statement
  5. ^ Iain Hampsher-Monk, Karin Tilmans and Frank van Vree, History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives. The University of Chicago Press and Amsterdam Press, 1998 [2]
  6. ^ "Dans le monde anglophone, l'histoire conceptuelle s'exprime notamment dans Contributions to the History of Concepts, un périodique qui paraît à Rio de Janeiro." Marc Angenot, L'histoire des idées : problématiques, objets, concepts, enjeux, débats et méthodes [3]. Montréal, Discours social, 2011, XXXIII, p.12 note; Braw, Daniel (27 September 2007). "I orden kan vi få syn på vår historia". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish language). Så sent som förra året grundades en vetenskaplig tidskrift – Contributions to the History of Concepts – vars uttryckliga mål är att göra begreppshistorien, länge en tysk specialitet, till en internationell angelägenhet. (As recently as last year founded a scientific journal - Contributions to the History of Concepts - whose explicit goal is to make conceptual history, while a German specialty, to an international affair) {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Contributions to the History of Concepts' official website [4]
  • Tim Lacy, Notice in the U.S. Intellectual History Blog of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) [5]
  • Announcement in Time, Memory and Representation. A Multidisciplinary Program on Transformations in Historical Consciousness [6]
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