Politisk idéhistorie: Fire tilgange

Abstract

The article discusses the importance of ideas for political analysis. Ideas are more than random or inconsequential rationalisations of hard interests. They constitute and effect something in and of themselves. The article therefore presents the four most important and influential approaches to the study of the history of political thought: Michel Foucault’s discourse analysis, Michael Freeden’s ideology analysis, Quentin Skinner’s legitimization analysis and Reinhart Koselleck’s conceptual history.