Surman, Jan, Straner, Katalin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5237-5758 and Haslinger, Peter (2014) Nomadic concepts: Biological concepts and their careers beyond biology. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 9 (2). pp. 1-17.

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Abstract

This article introduces a collection of studies of biological concepts crossing over to other disciplines and nonscholarly discourses. The introduction discusses the notion of nomadic concepts as introduced by Isabelle Stengers and explores its usability for conceptual history. Compared to traveling (Mieke Bal) and interdisciplinary (Ernst Müller) concepts, the idea of nomadism shifts the attention from concepts themselves toward the mobility of a concept and its effects. The metaphor of nomadism, as outlined in the introduction, helps also to question the relation between concepts’ movement and the production of boundaries. In this way conceptual history can profit from interaction with translation studies, where similar processes were recently discussed under the notion of cultural translation.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.3167/choc.2014.090201
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/13773

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