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The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts

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The need for theory in the discipline of history has been discussed in this article, with a focus on social history and concepts of historical time and social history, as well as the concept of crisis.
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1 On the Need for Theory in the Discipline of History 2 Social History and Conceptual History 20 3 Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics ofDiscourse 38 4 Transformations of Experience and Methodological Change: A Historical-Anthropological Essay 45 5 The Temporalization of Utopia 84 6 Time and History 100 7 Concepts of Historical Time and Social History 125 8 The Unknown Future and the Art of Prognosis 131 9 Remarks on the Revolutionary Calendar and Neue Zeit 148 10 The Eighteenth Century as the Beginning of Modernity 154 11 On the Anthropological and Semantic Structure of Bildung I70 12 Three biirgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England, and France 208 13 "Progress" and "Decline": An Appendix to the History of Two Concepts 218 14 Some Questions Regarding the Conceptual History of"Crisis" 236 15 The Limits of Emancipation: A Conceptual-Historical Sketch 248 16 Daumier and Death 265 17 War Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors 285 18 Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams 327

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Dissertation

Experience on trial : criminal law and the modernist novel

Rex Ferguson
TL;DR: Forster as discussed by the authors argues that the cultural forms of modernity become truly modern only when specific experience, as opposed to tradition or faith, is made the basis of epistemological authority by taking the primary examples of law and literature, arguing that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries perfectly conform to this statement.