Contributions to the History of Concepts
Aims & Scope
Editors: Sinai Rusinek, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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Contributions is the international peer-reviewed journal of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG). It is hosted and sponsored by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
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.
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Subjects: History, Linguistics
Forthcoming Issue, Summer 2012, Volume 7(1)
Whither Conceptual History? From National to Entangled Histories
Margrit Pernau
Democracy in the Plural? The Concepts of Democracy in Swedish Parliamentary Debates during the Interwar Years
Anna Friberg
Conceptual History in Korea: Its Development and Prospects
Myoung-Kyu Park
Temporalization of Concepts: Reflections on the Concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi (1870-1900)
Mohinder Singh
Peculiarities of the Translation and Adaptation of the Concept of Nation in East-Central Europe: The Hungarian and Romanian Cases in the Nineteenth Century
Victor Neumann
Reviews
Enlightenment as Self-Perception
A review of Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
Nicholas Miller
Democracy in Focus: Review Panel
Competing Visions of Democracy
A review of Kirsten Haack, The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A Conceptual History (Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2011)
Marie-Christine Boilard
Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Sweden and Britain
A review of Pasi Ihalainen, Agents of the People: Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in British and Swedish Parliamentary and Public Debates, 1734–1800
Bo Lindberg
On the Concept of Democracy in Denmark
A review of Jeppe Nevers, Fra skældsord til slagord. Demokratibegrebet i dansk politisk historie [From Term of Abuse to Catchphrase: The Concept of Democracy in Danish Political History]
Jens Wendel-Hansen