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Chris Lorenz's idea of conceptual inversion
The text deals with Chris Lorenzâs idea of conceptual inversion, understood as an epistemological blockade that stands as a barrier to the development of a proper theory of humanities and social sciences. According to Lorenz, the methodological and theoretical views of scientific programmes embody negations (i.e. inversions) of the views being criticized by them. Because of this process of âturning upside downâ, many of the conceptual problems connected with the criticized positions survive. The author asks two questions: first, about the relation between Lorenzâs idea of conceptual inversion and Imre Lakatosâ idea of reconfigurations of research programmes, and, second, about possible common ground on which Lorenzâs interest in empiricism emerging out of his criticism of narrativism, and Ewa Domanskaâs interest in new empiricism related to posthumanism (also critical of textual constructivism), could meet
Chris Lorenz's idea of conceptual inversion
The text deals with Chris Lorenzâs idea of conceptual inversion, understood as an epistemological blockade that stands as a barrier to the development of a proper theory of humanities and social sciences. According to Lorenz, the methodological and theoretical views of scientific programmes embody negations (i.e. inversions) of the views being criticized by them. Because of this process of âturning upside downâ, many of the conceptual problems connected with the criticized positions survive. The author asks two questions: first, about the relation between Lorenzâs idea of conceptual inversion and Imre Lakatosâ idea of reconfigurations of research programmes, and, second, about possible common ground on which Lorenzâs interest in empiricism emerging out of his criticism of narrativism, and Ewa Domanskaâs interest in new empiricism related to posthumanism (also critical of textual constructivism), could meet
Globalizing Hayden White
This conversation originated in a plenary session organized by Ewa DomaĆska and MarĂa InĂ©s La Greca under the same title of âGlobalizing Hayden Whiteâ at the III International Network for Theory of History Conference âPlace and Displacement: The Spacing of Historyâ held at Södertörn University, Stockholm, in August 2018. In order to pay homage to Hayden Whiteâs life work 5 months after his passing we knew that what was neededâand what he himself would have wantedâwas a vibrant intellectual exchange. Our âcelebration by discussionâ contains elaborated and revised versions of the presentations by scholars from China (Xin Chen), Latin America (MarĂa InĂ©s La Greca, Veronica Tozzi Thompson), United States (Paul Roth), Western (Kalle Pihlainen) and East-Central Europe (Ewa DomaĆska). We took this opportunity of gathering scholars who represent different parts of the world, different cultures and approaches to reflect on Whiteâs ideas in a global context. Our interest was in discussing how his work has been read and used (or even misread and misused) and how it has influenced theoretical discussions in different parts of the globe. Rather than just offering an account as experts, we mainly wanted to reflect on the current state of our field and the ways that Whiteâs inheritance might and should be carried forward in the future.Fil: Domanska, Ewa. Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaĆ; PoloniaFil: la Greca, MarĂa InĂ©s. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Departamento de MetodologĂa, EstadĂstica y MatemĂĄticas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letras. Departamento de FilosofĂa; ArgentinaFil: Roth, Paul A.. University of California at Santa Cruz; Estados UnidosFil: Chen, Xin. Zhejiang University; ChinaFil: Tozzi, MarĂa VerĂłnica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Departamento de MetodologĂa, EstadĂstica y MatemĂĄticas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letras. Departamento de FilosofĂa; ArgentinaFil: Pihlainen, Kalle. Tallinn University; Estoni
Historicism and constructionism: rival ideas of historical change
Simon ZB. Historicism and constructionism: rival ideas of historical change. History of European Ideas. 2019;45(8):1171-1190.A seemingly unitary appeal to history might evoke today two incompatible
operations of historicization that yield contradictory results. This article
attempts to understand two co-existing senses of historicity as
conflicting ideas of historical change and rival practices of temporal
comparison: historicism and constructionism. At their respective births,
both claimed to make sense of the world and ourselves as changing
over time. Historicism, dominating nineteenth-century Western thought
and overseeing the professionalization of historical studies, advocated
an understanding of the present condition of the human world as
developing out of past conditions. Constructionism, dominating the
second half of the twentieth century, understood the present condition
as the recent invention of certain âhistoricalâ environments, without prior
existence. As competing ideas of historical change, they both entail a
comparison between past and present conditions of their investigated
subjects, but their practices of temporal comparison are irreconcilable
and represent two distinct ways of historicization