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Andrew SARTORI
Titolo/Title
Political Thought and the Historical Epistemology of Political Economy, 1-13 (PDF)
Abstract
Istvan Hont argued that the emergence of political economy defined the threshold of modern political thought. The intellectual challenge that economic thought posed for political thought, however, has not been adequately conceptualized. That challenge can only be properly recognized when we grasp the historicity of political economy as a form of knowledge specifically calibrated to make sense of the sociality characteristic of capitalist society.
Keywords
Political Economy – the Social – Commercial Society – Historical epistemology – Capitalism
BIO
Andrew SARTORI is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (University of California Press, 2014), as well as the co-editor of a number of volumes, including (with Samuel Moyn) Global Intellectual History (Columbia University Press, 2013). He is also the co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies.
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