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The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts
Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Presner +1 more
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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.Abstract:
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 327read more
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the work of Theodor Adorno offers a valuable framework for reevaluating the philosophical heritage of classical social theory, and they make two primary arguments to substantiate their claim: the first is that Adorno's work must be understood within the context of the philosophy of Kant and Hegel.
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Risk, responsibility and roles redefined: is counterterrorism a corporate responsibility?
TL;DR: In this article, the role of the private company in the fight against terrorism is discussed, and the authors argue that the economic logic guiding the risk thinking of private companies is hardly compatible with the aim of providing national security.
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The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics
TL;DR: The Chronology of Gregorian and Republican calendars as discussed by the authors is a chronology of the history and evolution of the Gregorian calendar and the calendar's evolution in the last few centuries.