La frontera disciplinar entre Bielefeld y Cambridge. Estratigrafía temporal y contextualismo lingüístico como espacio de investigación

Abstract

Regardless tension and discrepancies, a research field integrated by Koselleck´s Conceptual history and Skinner´s Linguistic contextualism has been explored fruitfully in researches demonstrating the methodological potential suggested by an eclectic approach. Typical of academic lexicography has been the attempt to reconstruct “quintessential definitions” trying to accurately refine the meaning of each concept to remove its constitutive ambiguity. Due to the mutability and, therefore, plurivocity distinctive of social, political and juridical concepts, the articulation between both methodological contributions provides, as Richter argues, a more satisfactory historical account of political thought and social and juridical language. The main objective of this article, based on a rigorous study of primary and secondary sources, is to reconstruct and explain spinal thesis of both approaches in order to analyze and demonstrate the elements of particular interest to philosophical-political, political and constitutional conceptual research. Those fields have made little use of this fruitful methodological approach.