History in the plural : an introduction to the work of Reinhart Koselleck / Niklas Olsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Niklas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Koselleck, Reinhart.

Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Historiography--Germany.

Historiography.

Political science--History.

Political science.

Historians--Germany--Biography.

Historians.

Germany--Historiography.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of "grand theory," Koselleck was an inspiration to many

Contents:

Family, war, university : the various educations of Reinhart Koselleck

Explaining, criticizing and revising modern political thought

Social history between reform and revolution

Program, project, straight jacket : the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe

Theorizing historical time and historical writing

Commemorating the dead : experience, understanding, identity

The foundations and the future of Koselleck's scholarly program.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-845-9

1-78238-382-4

1-280-49667-3

9786613591906

0-85745-296-7

OCLC:

793996549