A Word Newly Introduced into Language”
The Appearance and Spread of “Social” in French Enlightened Thought, 1745–1765
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9339586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yair Mintzker (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 500-513 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2008.03.003 |
| OpenAlex | W2062628344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In the early 1760s, the entry dedicated to the term "social" in Diderot's Encyclopédie claimed that it was "un mot nouvellement introduit dans la langue." Strictly speaking, this description was inaccurate: "social" had already appeared (though very sporadically) in seventeenth-century French texts. But the essence of the Encyclopédie's argument was correct: "social" had been so marginal in French up until the mid-eighteenth century that its wide deployment in enlightened discourse from the 1740s onward could be treated as a new appearance. The article main argument is that "social's" new appearance in the mid-1740s was of considerable intellectual importance
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |