Book contents
- History, Politics, Law
- History, Politics, Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction History, Politics, Law
- Part I Methods, Approaches and Encounters
- Part II Thinking through the International
- Law and Constructions of the Political
- Empires, States and Nations
- Institutions and Persons
- Economics and Innovation
- 11 Sea Change
- 12 The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic Development and the Study of Conceptual Change
- Gender
- Index
12 - The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic Development and the Study of Conceptual Change
from Economics and Innovation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2021
- History, Politics, Law
- History, Politics, Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction History, Politics, Law
- Part I Methods, Approaches and Encounters
- Part II Thinking through the International
- Law and Constructions of the Political
- Empires, States and Nations
- Institutions and Persons
- Economics and Innovation
- 11 Sea Change
- 12 The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic Development and the Study of Conceptual Change
- Gender
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, I shall examine some of the ideological aspects of how historians and social theorists have learned to think about conceptual change. At issue in this enquiry is what ‘historicism’ in the contemporary human sciences amounts to. Historicism is often seen as the product of the changing understanding of time and human action brought about by the emergence of raison d’état and the rise of the modern state; some also trace its roots to the interest in anthropology and the history of civilisation that emerged from early-modern natural jurisprudence.1 Whatever the vocabularies used in earlier forms of historicism – reason of state, natural law, nationalism, the philosophy of history – today the historicist is more likely to speak in the language of economics.
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- History, Politics, LawThinking through the International, pp. 309 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021