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The practice of conceptual history : timing history, spacing concepts / Reinhart Koselleck ; translated by Todd Samuel Presner and others ; foreword by Hayden White.
Loaned to Another Library D16.15 .K67 2002
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koselleck, Reinhart.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- History--Periodization.
- History.
- History--Philosophy.
- Historiography.
- Semantics, Historical.
- History--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Germany.
- Summary:
- Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of "Begriffsgeschichte," a methodology of historical studies exemplified in these 18 essays, which focus on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.
- Contents:
- On the need for theory in the discipline of history
- Social history and conceptual history
- Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics of discourse
- Transformations of experience and methodological change : a historical-anthropological essay
- The temporalization of utopia
- Time and history
- Concepts of historical time and social history
- The unknown future and the art of prognosis
- Remarks on the revolutionary calendar and Neue Zeit
- The eighteenth century as the beginning of modernity
- On the anthropological and semantic structure of Bildung
- Three bürgerliche worlds? : preliminary theoretical-historical remarks on the comparative semantics of civil society in Germany, England, and France
- "Progress" and "decline" : an appendix to the history of two concepts
- Some questions regarding the conceptual history of "crisis"
- The limits of emancipation : a conceptual-historical sketch
- Daumier and death
- War memorials : identity formations of the survivors
- Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of dreams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-363).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804740224
- 0804743053
- OCLC:
- 48951684
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