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Samuel MOYN
Titolo/Title
La storia del pensiero politico e l’immaginario sociale, 15-36 (PDF)
Abstract
The historiography of political thought has never really reckoned with the implications of social theory. One troubling way of interpreting the itinerary of the field of the history of political thought in the past few decades, in fact, is to register how consistently and almost definitionally it has skirted engagement with the most serious consequence of social theory for its practice. I refer to the assault on the autonomy of representations, as if they were separate from the making and unmaking of society. In what follows, I argue that several recent developments in the human sciences — especially the rise of the concept of the social imaginary — have changed this assault in its form and left the history of political thought well-positioned to incorporate it rather than merely to continue its strategy of resistance in the name of the transcendence of concepts.
Keywords
Autonomy of Representations – Contextualism – Intellectual History – Social Imaginary – Social Theory
BIO
Samuel MOYN is Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, where he heads Grace Hopper College. His research focuses on modern political and legal thought, as well as the history of constitutional and international law. His most recent book is Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023).
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