Melvin Richter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3627345 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melvin Richter |
| PRENOMES | Melvin |
| SOBRENOME | Richter |
| ASSINATURA | RICHTER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1956 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Essays in Theory and History
The Concept of Caesarism in Gramsci
In Western political thought Caesarism, whether associated with, or subsumed under, its various cognate concepts such as tyranny, dictatorship, and Bonapartism, has had a durable and contradictory history. From the perspective of the history of ideas, the emergence and development of the bundle of ideas described by the term Caesarism is more than an intellectual attempt to formulate categories capable of capturing and characterizing it as a poli…
Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The history of all society up to now is the history of class struggles.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Essays in Theory and History
Why Concepts Matter
Conceptual History and Translation
This interview was conducted during the VII International Conference of the History of Concepts: Transatlantic Dialogues, that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6-9, 2004, and appeared for the first time in Anales of the Iberoamerikanska Institutet. 7/8: 13-26
The Concept of Despotism and l'abus des mots
In this article, the author applies the methodology of Begriffsgeschichte to the study of the concept of despotism in France, focusing mainly on the eighteenth century and the Revolution. During this period despotism became a basic concept (Grundbegriff), and thus highly contested. At the same time, the concept's long history, which stretches back to antiquity and includes the semantic boundaries that previously made it indistinguishable from "ty…
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Comparison and contrast were used by eighteenth-century European thinkers to characterise their nations and continent, as well as their historical epoch. This was done by distinguishing the arrangements of each nation from its neighbours', by contrasting European regimes, societies, economies, cultures, and religions with those elsewhere in the world, and by juxtaposing their own time with periods preceding it. This comparative mode of analysis w…
Introduction
Reinhart Koselleck is among the most original German theorists of history and historiography. His international reputation is due in part to his contributions as theorist and editor of the remarkable lexicon Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG). The GG is an exceptional reference work that goes far towards realizing Koselleck's program and distinctive version of Begriffsgeschichte (the history of concepts, conceptual history). What is presented here…
More than a Two-Way Traffic
Let me begin by sketching what I propose to do in this talk and explaining my title.My first published paper was on min ch'uan (the power of the people), a concept crucial to Sun Yat Sen's political thought. 2 I began my graduate work in Asian studies, with particular reference to China, where I had once served after learning Mandarin.More to the point, in my recent work on the theory and practice of the translation of political and social concep…
A Family of Political Concepts
It has been argued recently that tyranny is a persisting phenomenon very much alive today, a greater danger than newer forms of misrule such as totalitarianism. One argument is based on human nature being such that the temptation to abuse political power in the form of tyranny remains a possibility in all societies. Another defines tyranny as a spiritual disorder of the soul and polity. Both date the 19th century as the time when tyranny dropped …
The Deposition of Alexis de Tocqueville
Sheldon Wolin is among the most distinguished and influential American political theorists of our time. His Politics and Vision (1960), by its effortless but unmistakably profound scholarship, theoretical acuity, and elegant prose did much to convince university students and teachers that political theory and its history were indispensable both to liberal education and to producing involved citizens.1
More Than a Two-Way Traffic
In this article, the author examines the case of the Chinese reception of Western political and social concepts as an example to discuss the substantive issues involved in the circulation of concepts between Europe and other parts of the world. Translation and adaptation are key steps in this process of circulation. The question however is not to investigate whether the transposed concept is an accurate transcription of the original, but to under…
Dictatorship in History and Theory
Dictatorship in history and theory
Dictatorship in History and Theory
A distinguished group of historians and political theorists examine the complex relationship between nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying especial attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. An important contribution of the book is to consider not only the momentous episodes of coup d'etat, revolution, and imperial foundation which the Napoleonic era heralded, but also the contested politica…
Tocqueville and Guizot on democracy
Did Tocqueville treat democracy as a type of society, as a political regime, or in terms of their interactions? This paper argues against the assumption that Tocqueville's concept of this relationship remained constant over his three decades as a theorist. Beginning with his literal acceptance of Guizot's doctrinaire definition of democracy as an état social, Tocqueville then developed an eclectic political sociology. Without rejecting the signif…
Asignando a la «Begriffsgeschichte» su lugar en la historiografía del pensamiento político
En este artículo se examinan algunas razones que hacen de la Begriffsgeschichte (historia de los conceptos) un método valioso para los historiadores a la hora de estudiar el pensamiento político del pasado, y se sugieren algunas vías para la aplicación de los recursos métodológicos propios de la historia de los conceptos políticos y sociales con el fin de mejorar los futuros trabajos sobre historia del pensamiento político
Towards a lexicon of European political and legal concepts
The first step in planning a lexicon of European political and legal concepts is to decide upon how it is to be organised. Among the principal alternatives are the formats of three German reference works on the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) and the methods associated with John Pocock and Quentin Skinner. Although these German and Anglophone styles are often regarded as incompatible, on closer inspection, they turn out to be in many res…
The Mansfield-Winthrop Democracy in America
The French journal, Raisons politiques, devoted its February 2001 issue to “Le Moment Tocquevillien.” What is but a moment for France has lasted for more than a century and a half in the United States. Here, admiration of Tocqueville, always great, has now reached the point where readers will soon have to decide among three entirely new translations of Democracy in America: this one by Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop,1 James Schleifer’s, for …
Montesquieu's theory and practice of the comparative method
Montesquieu's comparative method was his greatest contribution to the human sciences. Eighteenth-century European thinkers had developed many different models and conflicting evaluations of regimes and societies outside their continent. Thus Montesquieu had to create a method for comparative analysis, master data from the vast travel literature, and decide among competing interpretations of it. Montesquieu used comparison to show differences and …
Begriffsgeschichte Today - An Overview
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…
Montesquieu and the concept of civil society
(1998). Montesquieu and the concept of civil society. The European Legacy: Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 33-41
Appreciating a Contemporary Classic
The Politics of Conscience
Conceptual History (Begriffsgeschichte) and Political Theory
This essay is at once a review of two German encyclopedias and an introduction to their respective versions of Begriffsgeschichte (the history of concepts or conceptual history). These two works are the Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie (A Dictionary of Philosophy on Historical Principles, hereafter referred to as HWP) and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Historisches Lexikon zur Politischsozialen Sprache in Deutschland (Basic Concepts in …
Tocqueville on Algeria
On any list of the most penetrating and least deceived political theorists of the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville must be ranked high. Few others perceived the dangers both of egalitarianism and of racial thinking; of secular religions as well as of state churches; of historical determinism, as well as of those other explanations which equally well undermine responsibility by attributing everything to mere chance or to the appearance of…
Reconstructing the History of Political Languages
II. Toward a Concept of Political Illegitimacy
UENTIN SKINNER in his superb recent book made a telling comment on how new concepts enter political discourse: The surest sign that a society has entered into the secure possession of a new concept is that a new vocabulary will be developed, in terms of which the concept can then be publicly articulated and discussed.' Professor Holmes has explained how and why the modern career'of legitimacy as a political concept began. It became a term central…
A Family of Political Concepts
It has been argued recently that tyranny is a persisting phenomenon very much alive today, a greater danger than newer forms of misrule such as totalitarianism. One argument is based on human nature being such that the temptation to abuse political power in the form of tyranny remains a possibility in all societies. Another defines tyranny as a spiritual disorder of the soul and polity. Both date the 19th century as the time when tyranny dropped …
Essays in Theory and History. An Approach to the Social Sciences
Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville
In that small list of classics that make up the canonical books of comparative political analysis, Montesquieu and Tocqueville both merit more than one entry.l When this subject's history is written, any account, if it is to be adequate, will have to include Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness and Decline of the Romans, and The Spirit of the Laws and Tocqueville's Democracy in America and The Old Regime an…
Sovereignty
Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Ideas
Introduction
Reinhart Koselleck is among the most original German theorists of history and historiography. His international reputation is due in part to his contributions as theorist and editor of the remarkable lexicon Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG). The GG is an exceptional reference work that goes far towards realizing Koselleck's program and distinctive version of Begriffsgeschichte (the history of concepts, conceptual history). What is presented here…
Aristotle and the classical Greek concept of despotism
(1990). Aristotle and the classical Greek concept of despotism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 175-187
Tocqueville and Guizot on democracy
Did Tocqueville treat democracy as a type of society, as a political regime, or in terms of their interactions? This paper argues against the assumption that Tocqueville's concept of this relationship remained constant over his three decades as a theorist. Beginning with his literal acceptance of Guizot's doctrinaire definition of democracy as an état social, Tocqueville then developed an eclectic political sociology. Without rejecting the signif…
Understanding Begriffsgeschichte
Raymond Aron as Political Theorist
Montesquieu and the concept of civil society
(1998). Montesquieu and the concept of civil society. The European Legacy: Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 33-41
An Introduction to Montesquieu's “An Essay on the Causes That May Affect Men's Minds and Characters
More than a Two-Way Traffic
Let me begin by sketching what I propose to do in this talk and explaining my title.My first published paper was on min ch'uan (the power of the people), a concept crucial to Sun Yat Sen's political thought. 2 I began my graduate work in Asian studies, with particular reference to China, where I had once served after learning Mandarin.More to the point, in my recent work on the theory and practice of the translation of political and social concep…
The Deposition of Alexis de Tocqueville
Sheldon Wolin is among the most distinguished and influential American political theorists of our time. His Politics and Vision (1960), by its effortless but unmistakably profound scholarship, theoretical acuity, and elegant prose did much to convince university students and teachers that political theory and its history were indispensable both to liberal education and to producing involved citizens.1
More Than a Two-Way Traffic
In this article, the author examines the case of the Chinese reception of Western political and social concepts as an example to discuss the substantive issues involved in the circulation of concepts between Europe and other parts of the world. Translation and adaptation are key steps in this process of circulation. The question however is not to investigate whether the transposed concept is an accurate transcription of the original, but to under…
Towards a lexicon of European political and legal concepts
The first step in planning a lexicon of European political and legal concepts is to decide upon how it is to be organised. Among the principal alternatives are the formats of three German reference works on the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) and the methods associated with John Pocock and Quentin Skinner. Although these German and Anglophone styles are often regarded as incompatible, on closer inspection, they turn out to be in many res…
The Cult of Authority
T. H. Green and His Audience
Between 1880 and 1914 no other thinker exerted a greater influence upon British thought and public policy than did T. H. Green. Bryce and Asquith have testified that Green's Liberal version of Idealism superseded Utilitarianism as the most prominent philosophical school in Great Britain. And what was more startling, he and his followers proceeded to bring to life the heavy abstractions of the Principles of Political Obligation . For Green convert…
Sovereignty
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
Emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and his characterization of the state as the ultimate moral force in society reveal his lifelong engagement with the relationship between the individual and society. In Professional Ethics and Civic …
The Cult of Authority
Tocqueville on Algeria
On any list of the most penetrating and least deceived political theorists of the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville must be ranked high. Few others perceived the dangers both of egalitarianism and of racial thinking; of secular religions as well as of state churches; of historical determinism, as well as of those other explanations which equally well undermine responsibility by attributing everything to mere chance or to the appearance of…
Montesquieu
Intellectual and Class Alienation
Few terms have had more complex fortunes than "alienation" and "intellectuals"; few at this time are more modish and less clear. It would be instructive to devote an entire paper to tracing their histories and plotting all their variations in present usage; it would be no less enlightening to determine just why these two concepts are so often coupled. Perhaps the single most important reason is to be found in the numerous attempts to classify and…
Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville
In that small list of classics that make up the canonical books of comparative political analysis, Montesquieu and Tocqueville both merit more than one entry.l When this subject's history is written, any account, if it is to be adequate, will have to include Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness and Decline of the Romans, and The Spirit of the Laws and Tocqueville's Democracy in America and The Old Regime an…
The Uses of Theory
History, Social Science, and Education
Notes to the Underground
Between Two Worlds
Essays in Theory and History. An Approach to the Social Sciences
An Introduction to Montesquieu's “An Essay on the Causes That May Affect Men's Minds and Characters
Political Theory and Political Education
By presenting alternative conceptions of how to link political theory to practice and education, this volume inaugurates a discussion hitherto not often attempted by modern political philosophers. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the origin…
II. Toward a Concept of Political Illegitimacy
UENTIN SKINNER in his superb recent book made a telling comment on how new concepts enter political discourse: The surest sign that a society has entered into the secure possession of a new concept is that a new vocabulary will be developed, in terms of which the concept can then be publicly articulated and discussed.' Professor Holmes has explained how and why the modern career'of legitimacy as a political concept began. It became a term central…
Raymond Aron as Political Theorist
Conceptual History (Begriffsgeschichte) and Political Theory
This essay is at once a review of two German encyclopedias and an introduction to their respective versions of Begriffsgeschichte (the history of concepts or conceptual history). These two works are the Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie (A Dictionary of Philosophy on Historical Principles, hereafter referred to as HWP) and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Historisches Lexikon zur Politischsozialen Sprache in Deutschland (Basic Concepts in …
Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Ideas
Understanding Begriffsgeschichte
Aristotle and the classical Greek concept of despotism
(1990). Aristotle and the classical Greek concept of despotism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 175-187
Reconstructing the History of Political Languages
The History of Political and Social Concepts
This book outlines and illustrates a new approach to intellectual history - the history of “concepts”. In distinction to the study of more traditional units of analysis, (authors, texts, traditions, discourses) conceptual history systematically combines the history of ideas and language with social history in such a way as to illustrate how changes in language both registered and shaped great transformations of government, society, economy, and m…
The Politics of Conscience
Appreciating a Contemporary Classic
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