Elias Palti
Biographic Data
| ID | 110330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elias Palti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elias |
| FAMILY NAME | Palti |
| SIGNATURE | PALTI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Quilmes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3716-9219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reenchantment, Ineffability, and “The Dialectic of Nominalism”
Martin Jay's newest book, Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph , aims to reveal the presence of a third current of thought in modern thinking. This current, which he calls “magical nominalism,” does not fit the traditional dichotomies (voluntarism–determinism, subjectivism–realism, and so on) around which the field's prevailing narratives are organized. As he shows, magical nominalism participates …
Intellectual History at a Cross-Roads. A Response to my Commentators
Ricardo Laleff Ilieff, El secreto de Edipo: Política y ontología lacaniana II
Ricardo Laleff Ilieff, El secreto de Edipo. Política y ontología lacaniana II
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
Es posible una teoría ontológico-política? Reflexiones en torno a Poderes de la abyección de Ricardo Laleff Ilieff
El presente ensayo es una reflexión a partir del libro de Laleff Ilieff acerca de la apelación a categorías provenientes de la teoría psicoanalítica, en particular, la de Jacques Lacan, para la teoría política. Según intenta mostrarse aquí, categorías como la del "abyecto" o lo "Real" se han revelado especialmente productivas dado que permiten alumbrar algunas de las cuestiones claves en torno de las cuales se ha debatido en los últimos años en e…
Anacronismo conceptual: El pecado del historiador intelectual
Conceptual anachronisms has been always considered one of the worst sins by an intellectual historian. The will to discover how the meaning of the fundamental concepts of political and social discourse was modified would demand to contextualize them. Particularly relevant in this sense is Quentin Skinner and the so-called Cambridge School ́s "discursive contextualist" proposal. However, it has recently come under severe criticism. Not only has th…
Arqueología del saber e historia intelectual: Más allá del estructuralismo y la fenomenología
Con la publicación de "Las palabras y las cosas" (1966) Foucault produjo un verdadero impacto en la escena intelectual francesa. Se trata de una obra peculiar. No sólo porque habla de cosas de las que normalmente los filósofos no hablan, que incluso la mayoría de ellos ignora. El proyecto mismo de una arqueología del saber resulta difícil de ubicar, dada su inscripción disciplinar problemática, en la intersección entre la filosofía y la historia,…
Rememoración: Entre Agencia Y Actualidad Del Pasado
Introducción
La historización del historicismo
A propósito de Javier Fernández Sebastián, Historia conceptual en el Atlántico Ibérico. Lenguajes, tiempos, revoluciones
Reinhart Koselleck y la temporalidad histórica
Argumentos: Reinhart Koselleck y la temporalidad histórica
Deleuze's Foucault: On the Possibility of an Outside of Knowledge/Power
During 1985 and 1986, Gilles Deleuze directed a seminar on Michel Foucault's work at the University of Paris 8 at Vincennes/St. Denis. The course was divided into three parts, one dedicated to each of the three levels on which, according to Deleuze, Foucault's concept of thinking unfolds: knowledge, power, and subjectivation. As I will show, Deleuze's attempt to reconstruct Foucault's perspective on the history of thought is highly enlightening, …
La Abeja Republicana: La démocratie dans le discours de l’émancipation
Le rejet généralisé et profond de la démocratie tout au long du xix e siècle est l’un des sujets les plus préoccupants et les moins abordés à la fois par les spécialistes de l’histoire politique latino-américaine. Son sens et son origine ne semblent pas soulever de question méritant un examen attentif : il révélerait clairement des préjugés profondément enracinés parmi l’élite locale, qui auraient des racines sociales, culturelles ou historiques …
Revising History: Introduction to the Symposium on the Bicentennial of the Latin American Revolutions of Independence
Introduction to the symposium on the bicentennial of the Latin American revolutions of independence
"Beyond the "History of Ideas: The Issue of the "Ideological Origins of the Revolutions of Independence" Revisited
This paper analyzes how Latin American historiography has addressed the issue of "the ideological origins of the revolution of independence," and how the formulation of that topic implies assumptions proper to the tradition of the history of ideas and leads to anachronistic conceptual transpositions. Halperín Donghi's work models a different approach, illuminating how a series of meaningful torsions within traditional languages provided the ideol…
El tópico de "los orígenes ideológicos" de las revoluciones de independencia como problema. Una relectura a partir de Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo, de Tulio Halperin …
Uno de los temas centrales en la historia de ideas en América Latina es el de los orígenes ideológicos de las revoluciones de independencia. La cuestión ha dado lugar a largas disputas en cuanto a la filiación de las ideas que permitieron la emergencia del discurso revolucionario. Según se intenta mostrar en este ensayo a partir de una relectura de Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo, de Tulio Halperin Donghi, ese afán …
An Archaeology of the Political: Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Temporalidade e refutabilidade dos conceitos políticos
Temporalidade e refutabilidade dos conceitos políticos[1]Temporality and refutability of political concepts Elías José Palti[2] RESUMO: Nas últimas décadas, o conceito do “político” de Carl Schmmitt tem ressurgido nos debates sobre teoria política, e isso também teve importante repercussão no campo da história intelectual. A distinção entre política e o político permitiu-nos reconsiderar a natureza de conceitos políticos, reavaliar a sua natureza…
The "Theoretical Revolution" in Intellectual History: From the History of Political Ideas to the History of Political Languages
This article intends to clarify what distinguishes the so-called new "politico-intellectual history" from the old "history of political ideas." What differentiates the two has not been fully perceived even by some of the authors who initiated this transformation. One fundamental reason for this is that the transformation has not been a consistent process deriving from one single source, but is rather the result of converging developments emanatin…
Celebrating Insurrection: The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican
Military uprisings (pronunciamientos) have occupied a central place in nineteenth-century Mexican political history. According to some authors, there were more than 1,500 pronunciamientos in the period of a little more than 50 years spanning from independence to the consolidation of the national state with Porfirio Díaz. At that point, Mexicans developed a kind of culture of insurrection. Given this fact, no historian who studied that period coul…
Reinhart Koselleck: His Concept of the Concept and Neo-Kantianism
The present article intends to trace the conceptual roots of Koselleck's concept of the concept. Koselleck's distinction between ideas and concepts has its roots in the logic of Hegel, who was the first to elaborate on the multivocal nature of concepts as their distinguishing feature vis-à-vis ideas. The main hypothesis proposed here is that Koselleck reformulated Hegel's view on the basis of the neo-Kantian philosophies developed at the turn of …
From Ideas to Concepts to Metaphors: The German Tradition of Intellectual History and the Complex Fabric of Language
Recently, the diffusion of the so-called "new intellectual history" led to the dismissal of the old school of the "history of ideas" on the basis of its ahistorical nature (the view of ideas as eternal entities). This formulation is actually misleading, missing the core of the transformation produced in the field. It is not true that the history of ideas simply ignored the fact that the meaning of ideas changes over time. The issue at stake here …
É possível pensar a história em uma era pós-subjetiva
O ensaio discute as categorias de sujeito, temporalidade e modernidade, a partir do empreendimento teórico de Koselleck, nos marcos do debate contemporâneo em torno das articulações entre filosofia, história e política. O exame das mutações conceituais experimentadas, no tempo, pela ideia de subjetividade, desde a sua origem às formulações mais recentes, propõe pensar a História, isto é, a agência humana, em uma era pós-subjetiva marcada pela rup…
Entre a natureza e o artifício: A Concepção De Nação Nos Tempos Da Independência
Como mostrou a literatura recente sobre a revolução da independência, a articulação de uma certa identidade nacional, contrariamente ao que afirmam as histórias nacionais tradicionais, não foi o ponto de partida senão o término final do processo de ruptura do vínculo colonial. E isso terá consequências historiográficas decisivas, posto que faz surgir a pergunta do que, então, o colocou em marcha. A chamada crítica 'revisionista' abrirá as portas …
La Nación Argentina Entre El Ser Y El Acontecimiento: La Controvertida Plasmación De Una Visión Genealógica Del Pasado Nacional
Beyond Revisionism: The Bicentennial of Independence, the Early Republican Experience, and Intellectual History in Latin America
Beyond Revisionism:The Bicentennial of Independence, the Early Republican Experience, and Intellectual History in Latin America Elías José Palti Latin America's Revolution of Independence was an event of world-historical importance. Citizens of different regions simultaneously created new nation states and established republican systems of government. This occurred at a time when the very meaning of the notions of "nation" and "republic" remained…
Quién votaba en Buenos Aires: Práctica y teoría del sufragio, 1850-1880
The Problem of "Misplaced Ideas" Revisited: Beyond the "History of Ideas" in Latin America
The change that has come over this branch of historiography in the past two decades may be characterized as a movement away from emphasizing history of thought (and even more sharply, "of ideas") toward emphasizing something rather different, for which "history of speech" or "history of discourse," if not unproblematic or irreproachable, may be the best terminology so far found J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History1 In 1973, Roberto Schwar…
The "Theoretical Revolution" in Intellectual History: From the History of Political Ideas to the History of Political Languages
This article intends to clarify what distinguishes the so-called new "politico-intellectual history" from the old "history of political ideas." What differentiates the two has not been fully perceived even by some of the authors who initiated this transformation. One fundamental reason for this is that the transformation has not been a consistent process deriving from one single source, but is rather the result of converging developments emanatin…
Reinhart Koselleck: His Concept of the Concept and Neo-Kantianism
The present article intends to trace the conceptual roots of Koselleck's concept of the concept. Koselleck's distinction between ideas and concepts has its roots in the logic of Hegel, who was the first to elaborate on the multivocal nature of concepts as their distinguishing feature vis-à-vis ideas. The main hypothesis proposed here is that Koselleck reformulated Hegel's view on the basis of the neo-Kantian philosophies developed at the turn of …
The "Return of the Subject" As a Historico-Intellectual Problem
Recently, a call for the "return of the subject" has gained increasing influence. The power of this call is intimately linked to the assumption that there is a necessary connection between "the subject" and politics (and ultimately, history). Without a subject, it is alleged, there can be no agency, and therefore no emancipatory projects-and, thus, no history. This paper discusses the precise epistemological foundations for this claim. It shows t…
"Beyond the "History of Ideas: The Issue of the "Ideological Origins of the Revolutions of Independence" Revisited
This paper analyzes how Latin American historiography has addressed the issue of "the ideological origins of the revolution of independence," and how the formulation of that topic implies assumptions proper to the tradition of the history of ideas and leads to anachronistic conceptual transpositions. Halperín Donghi's work models a different approach, illuminating how a series of meaningful torsions within traditional languages provided the ideol…
From Ideas to Concepts to Metaphors: The German Tradition of Intellectual History and the Complex Fabric of Language
Recently, the diffusion of the so-called "new intellectual history" led to the dismissal of the old school of the "history of ideas" on the basis of its ahistorical nature (the view of ideas as eternal entities). This formulation is actually misleading, missing the core of the transformation produced in the field. It is not true that the history of ideas simply ignored the fact that the meaning of ideas changes over time. The issue at stake here …
Beyond Revisionism: The Bicentennial of Independence, the Early Republican Experience, and Intellectual History in Latin America
Beyond Revisionism:The Bicentennial of Independence, the Early Republican Experience, and Intellectual History in Latin America Elías José Palti Latin America's Revolution of Independence was an event of world-historical importance. Citizens of different regions simultaneously created new nation states and established republican systems of government. This occurred at a time when the very meaning of the notions of "nation" and "republic" remained…
Romantic Philosophy and Natural Sciences: Blurred Boundaries and Terminological Problems
Departing from a recent work by Helmut Müller-Sievers the author charts the intricacies of the debate between preformationism and epigeneticism and its theoretico-epistemological repercussions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although the most common interpretation equals preformationism to mechanism and fixism, on one side, and evolutionism to epigeneticism and organicism, on the other, the actual picture, once key authors are ana…
The Nation as a Problem: "Historians and the "National Question
How is it that the nation became an object of scholarly research? As this article intends to show, not until what we call the "genealogical view" (which assumes the "natural" and "objective" character of the nation) eroded away could the nation be subjected to critical scrutiny by historians. The starting point and the premise for studies in the field was the revelation of the blind spot in the genealogical view, that is, the discovery of the "mo…
El tópico de "los orígenes ideológicos" de las revoluciones de independencia como problema. Una relectura a partir de Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo, de Tulio Halperin …
Uno de los temas centrales en la historia de ideas en América Latina es el de los orígenes ideológicos de las revoluciones de independencia. La cuestión ha dado lugar a largas disputas en cuanto a la filiación de las ideas que permitieron la emergencia del discurso revolucionario. Según se intenta mostrar en este ensayo a partir de una relectura de Tradición política española e ideología revolucionaria de Mayo, de Tulio Halperin Donghi, ese afán …
Entre a natureza e o artifício: A Concepção De Nação Nos Tempos Da Independência
Como mostrou a literatura recente sobre a revolução da independência, a articulação de uma certa identidade nacional, contrariamente ao que afirmam as histórias nacionais tradicionais, não foi o ponto de partida senão o término final do processo de ruptura do vínculo colonial. E isso terá consequências historiográficas decisivas, posto que faz surgir a pergunta do que, então, o colocou em marcha. A chamada crítica 'revisionista' abrirá as portas …
On the Thesis of the Essential Contestability of Concepts, and 19th Century Latin American Intellectual History
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Historicism as an Idea and as a Language
Politiquesde l'histoire: L'historicisme comme promesse et comme mythe. Jeffrey Andrew Barash
"The "Metaphor of Life: Herder's Philosophy of History and Uneven Developments in Late Eighteenth-Century Natural Sciences
The origins of the evolutionary concept of history have normally been associated with the development of an organicist notion of society. The meaning of this notion, in turn, has been assumed as something perfectly established and clear, almost self-evident. This assumption has prevented any close scrutiny of it. As this article tries to show, the idea of "organism" that underlies the emergence of the evolutionary concept of history, far from bei…
Time, modernity and time irreversibility
As soon as 'modernity' was defined as a particular way of con ceiving of time (the so-called 'time of modernity'), the questions of tempo rality came to be situated at the heart of the ongoing debate regarding the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the 'modern age'. This has, in turn, readily led to a no less passionate search for the assessment of modernity's foundations which are thought to rest in its typical sense of experiencing temporality. This…
In Memoriam: Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996), An Unended Quest
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 58, Number 3, July 1997
Imaginación Histórica E Identidad Nacional en Brasil Y Argentina. Un Estudio Comparativo
Mientras preparaba su expedici6n
Quién votaba en Buenos Aires: Práctica y teoría del sufragio, 1850-1880
Liberalism vs. Nationalism: Hobsbawm's Dilemma
Since the early 1980s an “anti-genealogical” consensus has developed among historians or nationalism. According to the so-called “genealogical approach,” which dominated European thought in the 19th century, nations were “objective,” single entities (defined in terms of race, language, traditions, etc.), evolving through time. Those primary social groupings (such as tribes, city-states, empires, feudal fiefdoms, theocracies, and so on) under whic…
Orden político y ciudadanía. Problemas y debates en el liberalismo argentino en el siglo XIX
Para las élites porteñas, el supuestamente brillante futuro prometido por la quiebra del yugo colonial y la apertura al mercado internacional (la rápida transformación de la antigua capital virreinal en la "Tiro del Nuevo Mundo") pronto se les revelaría como una mera ilusión; una ilusión peligrosa, además, puesto que habría abierto las puertas a procesos políticos y dramas sociales hasta entonces inimaginables para ellas
Metahistoria de Hayden White y las aporías del «giro lingüístico»
Imaginación Histórica E Identidad Nacional en Brasil Y Argentina. Un Estudio Comparativo
Mientras preparaba su expedici6n
Is There a Telos Right
As a reader of (and one-time contributor to) Telos, I am puzzled by the latest ideological orientation of this journal. How can a self-postulated “progressive” journal openly support Proposition 187, as Thomas Fleming does in his article in issue 104. One may suspect a misunderstanding — that this is not what Fleming really meant, or, if he did, that his view is not representative of the journal. However, in their introduction to that same issue,…
Sarmiento. Author of a Nation
The Nahuas after the Conquest. A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries
A monumental achievement of scholarship, this volume on the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact. Simply put, the purpose of this book is to throw light on the history of Nahua society and culture through the use of records in Nahuatl, concentrating on the time when the bulk of the extant documents were written, between…
Auge y caída de la hermenéutica: La crítica literaria en Estados Unidos luego del New Criticism
Time, modernity and time irreversibility
As soon as 'modernity' was defined as a particular way of con ceiving of time (the so-called 'time of modernity'), the questions of tempo rality came to be situated at the heart of the ongoing debate regarding the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the 'modern age'. This has, in turn, readily led to a no less passionate search for the assessment of modernity's foundations which are thought to rest in its typical sense of experiencing temporality. This…
In Memoriam: Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996), An Unended Quest
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 58, Number 3, July 1997
Patroklos's Funeral and Habermas's Sentence
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Patroklos's Funeral and Habermas's Sentence
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"The "Metaphor of Life: Herder's Philosophy of History and Uneven Developments in Late Eighteenth-Century Natural Sciences
The origins of the evolutionary concept of history have normally been associated with the development of an organicist notion of society. The meaning of this notion, in turn, has been assumed as something perfectly established and clear, almost self-evident. This assumption has prevented any close scrutiny of it. As this article tries to show, the idea of "organism" that underlies the emergence of the evolutionary concept of history, far from bei…
La política en las calles: Entre el voto y la movilización: Buenos Aires, 1862-1880
Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian
Recent Studies on the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Latin America
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The Nation as a Problem: "Historians and the "National Question
How is it that the nation became an object of scholarly research? As this article intends to show, not until what we call the "genealogical view" (which assumes the "natural" and "objective" character of the nation) eroded away could the nation be subjected to critical scrutiny by historians. The starting point and the premise for studies in the field was the revelation of the blind spot in the genealogical view, that is, the discovery of the "mo…
The "Return of the Subject" As a Historico-Intellectual Problem
Recently, a call for the "return of the subject" has gained increasing influence. The power of this call is intimately linked to the assumption that there is a necessary connection between "the subject" and politics (and ultimately, history). Without a subject, it is alleged, there can be no agency, and therefore no emancipatory projects-and, thus, no history. This paper discusses the precise epistemological foundations for this claim. It shows t…
On the Thesis of the Essential Contestability of Concepts, and 19th Century Latin American Intellectual History
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Historicism as an Idea and as a Language
Politiquesde l'histoire: L'historicisme comme promesse et comme mythe. Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Historia de ideas e historia de lenguajes políticas: Acerca Del Debate en Torno a Los Usos De Los Términos "Pueblo" Y "Pueblos
Los últimos veinte años han sido testigos de una transformación crucial en nuestros modos de concebir el proceso que llevaría a la quiebra del vínculo colonial con España. La visión dicotómica clásica que oponía el liberalismo latinoamericano al proverbial tradicionalismo y despotismo peninsular se habría tornado ya insostenible. Según han demostrado autores como François-Xavier Guerra, la crisis que conduciría a la independencia se trató de un p…
Romantic Philosophy and Natural Sciences: Blurred Boundaries and Terminological Problems
Departing from a recent work by Helmut Müller-Sievers the author charts the intricacies of the debate between preformationism and epigeneticism and its theoretico-epistemological repercussions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although the most common interpretation equals preformationism to mechanism and fixism, on one side, and evolutionism to epigeneticism and organicism, on the other, the actual picture, once key authors are ana…
Research Projects and Networks
Iberoamerican Network of Político-Conceptual and Intellectual History (RIAHPCI). Coordinators: Elías Palti (UNQui-Argentina), João Feres Júnior (IUPERJ-Brasil), Alexandra Pita (COLMES-México), and Javier Fernández Sebastián (UPV-España
The Problem of "Misplaced Ideas" Revisited: Beyond the "History of Ideas" in Latin America
The change that has come over this branch of historiography in the past two decades may be characterized as a movement away from emphasizing history of thought (and even more sharply, "of ideas") toward emphasizing something rather different, for which "history of speech" or "history of discourse," if not unproblematic or irreproachable, may be the best terminology so far found J.G.A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History1 In 1973, Roberto Schwar…
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