Renewal in the History of Political Thought: The reception in the Spanish and Latin American world of conceptual history ; La renovación en la historia de las ideas políticas: La recepción en el mundo español e iberoamericano de la historia conceptual

The influence and application of some of the main postulates of what is known as the "linguistic turn" led, beginning in the 1970s, to a deep renewal in the field of intellectual history. Among the currents that broke with the traditional history of ideas are the "historical contextualism" (history of languages and political discourses) of the so-called Cambridge School and the history of political and social concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) of the German historian Reinhart Koselleck. Throughout convergences and controversies, both schools have returned ideas and texts to their historicity in the form of language. German conceptual history, with its research on political-conceptual change in modernity, its relationship with social history and its theoretical dimension in the study of historical temporalities, has had fruitful roots in Spain since the late twentieth century, up to the point of becoming, both in the field of philosophy and historiography, the main current in the history of political and social ideas. The thrust of Hispanic historiography has even reached a transnational dimension, crystallizing in various Ibero-American projects, dictionaries, and publications. After twenty-five years of results, the possibilities offered by the theory and methodology of conceptual history are far from being exhausted. ; El influjo y la aplicación de algunos de los postulados de lo que se dio en llamar el “giro lingüístico” supuso, a partir de la década de los años setenta, una honda renovación en el campo de estudio de la historia intelectual. Entre las corrientes que vinieron a romper con la tradicional historia de las ideas destacan el “contextualismo histórico” (historia de los lenguajes y los discursos políticos) de la denominada Escuela de Cambridge y la historia de los conceptos políticos y sociales (Begriffsgeschichte) del historiador alemán Reinhart Koselleck. Entre convergencias y controversias, ambas escuelas han devuelto ideas y textos a su historicidad en forma de lenguaje. La historia conceptual alemana ...