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Tópicos (México)
Print version ISSN 0188-6649
Abstract
SEREY, Juan. The Ideological Role of Concepts in Reinhart Koselleck’s Conceptual History. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2021, n.60, pp.175-200. Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 0188-6649. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i60.1121.
In this paper we analyze the basic notions of Reinhart Koselleck’s conceptual history, with regard to which he claims that conceptual order permits the constitution of semantic fields that obtain their content from the horizons of expectations and experience in which they are embedded. However, this relation is troublesome, for Koselleck does not explore the ideological grounding of the extralinguistic sphere that determines conceptual order, showing thusly an aspect that affects conceptual history’s composition as a discipline that does not question its own foundations. We therefore claim that the notion of semantic control exerted by ideologies, which determine the primacy of specific conceptual meanings over other conceptual contents, allows this issue to be clarified and solved.
Keywords : history; concepts; ideology; Koselleck.