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  • Chapter 3 - The Problem of Conceptual Change

  • Elías J. Palti, University of Buenos Aires
  • Book:
    Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
    Published online:
    02 May 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2024, pp 54-77

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 goes back to Skinner’s “rhetorical turn” and the paradoxical consequences of it. As it shows, Skinner will focus exclusive on one rhetorical figure: paradiastole, which became at once an object and a heuristic tool. It is connected with his perspective of conceptual change as a form of transvaluation. This leads, in turn, to distinguish between the “reproducers of ideology” and the “innovators of ideology,” and posit the latter as the demiurges of conceptual change. At that juncture, there appears the figure of the “author.” Yet, as is shows, it is contradictory with the theoretical premises he established. At that point, we can observe the collapse of his original proposal of a “discursive contextualist” approach. Lastly, this leads his view to relapse into the dualism between “ideas” and “reality” proper to the traditional history of ideas that he intended then to counter.