The History of Political Thought in National Context

by Edited by Dario Castiglione , Iain Hampsher-Monk

• ISBN13: 9780521782340
• ISBN10: 0521782341
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this volume a distinguished international team of contributors characterises the nature of, and recent developments in, the history of political thought in their respective countries. The essays scrutinise not only the different academic histories and methodological traditions on which the study of the history of political thought has drawn, but also its relationship to cultural and political debates within nations. This collection represents a major contribution to the history of ideas, in which political thought has always been central, whilst reflecting the disciplinary tensions - and national differences - of what remains a 'borderline' subject, located at the intersection of history, politics and philosophy. The different national characteristics taken on by political discourse, and the complex relationship these characteristics have to the aspirations of the discipline itself, are considered in these wide-ranging essays, which cover the history of political thought in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction. The history of political thought and the national discourses of politics	1	(9)
Dario Castiglione
Iain Hampsher-Monk
The voice of the `Greeks' in the conversation of mankind	10	(30)
Janet Coleman
History of political theory in the Federal Republic of Germany: strange death and slow recovery	40	(18)
Wolfgang J. Mommsen
A German version of the `linguistic turn': Reinhart Koselleck and the history of political and social concepts (Begriffsgeschichte)	58	(22)
Melvin Richter
One hundred years of the history of political thought in Italy	80	(27)
Angelo D'orsi
Discordant voices: American histories of political thought	107	(27)
Terence Ball
The professoriate of political thought in England since 1914: a tale of three chairs	134	(25)
Robert Wokler
The history of political thought and the political history of thought	159	(16)
Iain Hampsher-Monk
The rise of, challenge to and prospects for a Collingwoodian approach to the history of political thought	175	(14)
Quentin Skinner
Towards a philosophical history of the political	189	(15)
Pierre Rosanvallon
`Le retour des emigres'? The study of the history of political ideas in contemporary France	204	(24)
Jeremy Jennings
National political cultures and regime changes in Eastern and Central Europe	228	(19)
Victor Neumann
The limits of the National paradigm in the study of political thought: the case of Karl Popper and Central European cosmopolitanism	247	(33)
Malachi Hacohen
Postscript. Disciplines, canons and publics: the history of `the history of political thought' in comparative perspective	280	(23)
Stefan Collini
Index	303