Intellectual history and cultural history: the inside and the outside

Kelley, Donald R.

doi:10.1177/0952695102015002123

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“…We find the term ‘mezzanine’ appropriate here since Baele and Bettiza’s approach falls somewhere between the familiar internalist/externalist divide that structures debates in disciplinary histories and sociologies of knowledge (e.g. Kelley, 2002; Schmidt, 2019; Shapin, 1992). Whereas internalists focus on intellectual debates in spurring disciplinary developments and externalists emphasise the impact of exogenous events and processes, the mezzanine approach instead explores how broader social logics are filtered through the academic field and guide scholarship in particular directions, often unconsciously.…”

Section: Theorising Turn-talkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations

Heiskanen,

Beaumont

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in number and predominantly concerned with the most prominent recent turns. By excavating the forgotten history of IR’s earliest turns from the 1980s and tracing the evolution of turn-talk over time, this article reveals a crucial yet overlooked internalist driver behind the phenomenon: the rise of reflexivity. Rather than emerging in the 21st century, turn-talk began at the end of the 1980s as a series of turns away from positivism and towards reflexivity. Cumulatively, this first wave of turns would denaturalise IR’s state-centric ontology while enshrining reflexivity as a canonical good among critical scholars. By the mid-1990s, however, these metatheoretical critiques of positivism had produced a substantial backlash. Charged with fostering an esoteric deconstructivism, a new generation of reflexivists set out to demonstrate the feasibility of post-positivist empirical research. As a result, IR’s turning also took on a different form from the 2000s: whereas the first wave of turns had mounted an epistemological and methodological attack against the positivist mainstream, the second wave set about bringing new ontological objects under the scrutiny of reflexivist scholars. This shift from anti-positivist to mostly intra-reflexivist turning was facilitated by the institutionalisation of critical IR as a major subfield of the discipline. It is the privileged position of reflexivity among critical IR scholars that is the condition of possibility for endless turning, accentuated by mounting pressures to demonstrate novelty in an increasingly competitive environment.

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Section: Theorising Turn-talkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations

Heiskanen,

Beaumont

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…In this regard, studies on religious moderation can at least be studied or viewed from social studies, namely history, sociology, and even anthropology (Koentjaraningrat, 1957(Koentjaraningrat, , 2014Marzali, 2014). However, this does not mean that religious moderation closes the possibility that it will be reviewed from the perspective of science, natural sciences, or other exact sciences (Kelley, 2002;LaCapra, 1980). However, differences emerged between academics, even in defining the study of intellectual history.…”

Section: Intellectual History: a Glimpsementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking The Religious Moderation through Intellectual History’s Lens: Mentifact, Sociofact, and Artefact

Titis Thoriquttyas,

Ahmad Munjin Nasih,

Achmad Sultoni

2023

JIHM

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It must be admitted that there is indeed much research related to religious moderation, but there needs to be more research, especially when it comes to intellectual history discourse. As a contextual discourse, intellectual history still needs sufficient study space among Indonesian academics. Therefore, this study uses an intellectual history perspective to examine religious moderation discourse. Strengthening the study, the authors use the thoughts of Koentjaraningrat and Julian Huxley, who use an anthropological scientific lens to view the discourse of religious moderation. This research is the form of a literature review using the results of research related to intellectual history and the two figures as primary reference sources. Collecting data was carried out by re-reading the text, compiling it, and formulating it to analyze the mentifact, sociofact, and artefact aspects of the discourse of religious moderation. This research produces an academic offer to strengthen the epistemological structure of the discourse of religious moderation by dissecting it through these three dimensions, namely mentifact, sociofact, and artefact. The findings of this research offer the hierarchical relationship on the epistemological of religious moderation (the high ideas, the intermediate ideas, and the lower ideas).

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“…It is in this way that, as Koselleck presents it, 'the concepts lending the source-language its shape serve as a heuristic entry into a comprehension of past reality' (Koselleck, 2004a: 255). When applied to the more specific case of history of science, the methodology of the Begriffsgeschichte approach can therefore be seen as a way or at least an invitation to bridge the gap between what has been called the 'external' and 'internal' history of science (Hacking, 1991;Kelley, 2002), representing, respectively '( . .…”

Section: A Concept Of Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lethal differences: a short history of the concepts of wealth and poverty in Danish epidemiological writings 1858-1914

Christensen

2011

History of the Human Sciences

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Through a study of the history of the concepts of wealth and poverty, this paper investigates the onset of a tradition in the conceptual architecture of epidemiological research concerning social differences in mortality rates from 1858 to 1914. It raises the question as to what the concepts of wealth and poverty meant to those who used them and what objects of interventions the conceptual architecture surrounding the concepts enabled the researchers to create. It argues that a transition began in the late 19th century in which an important framework for the understanding of causal relations behind the mortality patterns changed and that this change in turn influenced the scope of what was conceived as relevant objects of intervention.

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Intellectual history and cultural history: the inside and the outside

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations

Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations

Rethinking The Religious Moderation through Intellectual History’s Lens: Mentifact, Sociofact, and Artefact

Lethal differences: a short history of the concepts of wealth and poverty in Danish epidemiological writings 1858-1914

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