This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.
The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale
It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe.
The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analysis within the general framework of conceptual history