THE CONCEPT, THE SCIENCE, THE POLITICS. IN DIALOGUE WITH MY CRITICS

The paper aims to discuss the remarks and criticisms that have been raised in the essays discussing my book The Life of Concepts. Hegel, Bachelard, Canguilhem. I focus firstly on the relationship that I establish between conceptual history and epistemology of concepts; then, I consider some purely epistemological criticisms; finally, I focus on the problem of political science and its relationship with the social sciences. In the last section of the paper, I attempt to address the more comprehensive question of the role of philosophy and its relationship to sciences.