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At the heart of Reinhart Koselleck’s thought stands the history of concepts, the paradigm of which he, the »thinking historian«, as Hans-Georg Gadamer once called him, decisively helped create and used as the foundations for the major encyclopedia of Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe which he co-edited.
The history of concepts, as pursued by Koselleck, turns quite specifically against an abstract history of ideas. It focuses instead on the actual linguistic usage in...
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At the heart of Reinhart Koselleck’s thought stands the history of concepts, the paradigm of which he, the »thinking historian«, as Hans-Georg Gadamer once called him, decisively helped create and used as the foundations for the major encyclopedia of Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffe which he co-edited.
The history of concepts, as pursued by Koselleck, turns quite specifically against an abstract history of ideas. It focuses instead on the actual linguistic usage in social, political and legal life. Here, real experiences and expectations are considered at the interface between linguistic source material and politico-social reality.
With this collection of 25 brilliantly written studies, Kosseleck has bequeathed us a major project. He tells the story of our modern world by means of the histories of the concepts of »state«, »revolution«, »Enlightenment«, »emancipation«, »education« and »utopia«. In each instance he points up the dual status of the concepts, as indicators of and factors in historical processes. The semantic/pragmatic analysis of the concepts highlights continuities as well as turning points in social and cultural history, and thus reveals a quite specific form of historical experience: Here, the history of concepts becomes a medium in the historical self-enlightenment of present society.
2006, 569 pages
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Reinhart Koselleck
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Reinhart Koselleck (1923 – 2006) was a professor in Bochum, Heidelberg and Bielefeld. He pioneered studies on the history of the European Enlightenment, the theory of history and the history of concepts.
Reinhart Koselleck
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Reinhart Koselleck (1923 – 2006) was a professor in Bochum, Heidelberg and Bielefeld. He pioneered studies on the history of the European...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Reinhart KoselleckYear of Publication: 2023
Solidified Lava
Commemorating those »violently killed« is a core part of political culture. With his groundbreaking work on the »cult of the dead«, Reinhart Koselleck has opened up a new field of research: European memorial landscapes in all their historical, aesthetic and political complexity. Whether they are sacrifices for the fatherland or victims of wars and tyranny,...
Year of Publication: 2023
Hans Blumenberg, Reinhart KoselleckYear of Publication: 2023
Correspondence 1965–1994
For more than three decades, Hans Blumenberg and Reinhart Koselleck maintained a correspondence that was characterized by mutual affection but also by distance. It shows two academic protagonists discuss the founding of universities and interdisciplinarity in times of university reform – and two sensitive scholars trying to communicate central aspects of their research: conceptual...
Year of Publication: 2019
Reinhart Koselleck, Carl SchmittYear of Publication: 2019
Correspondence
Over the course of three decades, from 1953 to 1983, jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) corresponded with one another. The exchange between the former »Crown Jurist of the Third Reich« and the future »most important German historian of the 20th centurry« (DIE ZEIT) not only deals with the main works of the two protagonists but also with...
Year of Publication: 1988
Reinhart KoselleckYear of Publication: 1988
Futures Past
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life – intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever – accelerating...
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