Conceptual history

Term history refers to a branch of the humanities, especially history and cultural studies, which deals with the historical semantics of terms. The origin and significance of change of the terms be understood as an essential basis of our present culture, conceptual and linguistic understanding. The word first appears in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History. It is not clear whether this term was coined by Hegel himself or has arisen in writing the Vorlesungsnachschrift. After Hegel described as a type of the so-called " reflected History ", which merges the history of art, law and religion in the history of philosophy. This understanding was an isolated incident and has not prevailed. Particular impetus in the history of the concept in the 20th century by the publication of the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, History of the basic concepts and the journal Archives of conceptual history. The term history is used as a methodology in the humanities disciplines; for example, the philosopher Joachim Ritter, the historian Reinhart Koselleck and the sociologist Erich Rothacker are important representatives of this discipline. The historical semantics responded to allegations to the traditional history of ideas, historical discontinuities, neglecting social contexts and linguistic constituents general " ideas ". The approach of the concept of history, however, was also considered critical, as the quotes below show: concepts are and not the history itself, and therefore there could be no concept of history give ( Frege ); historical considerations are not a substitute for substantive analysis ( Röhl ).

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Curious thing

( " Term Written derived " right ) - " Basic Laws of Arithmetic " - " derived conceptual history " as a reprint in 1998 with the subtitle published Although Gottlob Frege had vehemently for the timelessness and thus ahistorical of terms, the emphasis of his masterpieces was.