Logic or Rhetoric in the History of Political Thought? Comments on Mark Bevir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12592136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Кари Палонен (0000-0001-7274-1690, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-310 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2529 • E-ISSN: 1470-1154 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/136425200456994 |
| OpenAlex | W2028807257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 12 |
I want to question Mark Bevir's approach to the history of political thought from a perspective, 'Weberian' view of knowledge. Bevir's criticism of others are often inaccurate, and I exemplify this by analysing his misreading of Quentin Skinner as a 'conventionalist'. When Bevir, furthermore, identifies the history of ideas with the study of meanings, this is a traditional view which can, with Skinner, opposed by a rhetorical perspective of 'linguistic action'. For 'objectivity' Bevir proposes an idea of coherence and consensus. This can be questioned from the Weberian viewpoint of the 'eternal youth of the historical disciplines'. There cannot be an substantive criteria of objectivity, only a plurality of competing perspectives. Bevir discusses conceptual change from the perspective of 'semantic holism'. However concepts cannot be reduced to the level of the (mere) meaning of terms or beliefs about them, but that they also include the naming and other aspects of the conceptualization. Bevir's variant of the history of ideas also seems to bracket the questions of persuasion and dissuasion as bases for changing one's beliefs. In my view the history of ideas should be analysed as a kind of 'theory politics'. Shifting one's beliefs can hardly be separated from others' beliefs or from the struggles on the topics on the agenda
Conceptual history · Conceptualization · Criticism · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Objectivity (philosophy · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
The Logic of the History of Ideas
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives on Conceptual Change
Rhetoric and Conceptual Change
From Hume's Intentions to Deconstruction and Back
Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship
Das ‘Webersche Moment
III. Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action
Conventions and the Understanding of Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2014 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |