Open AccessBook
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts
Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Presner +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Innovation after the French Revolution, or, Innovation Transformed: From Word to Concept
TL;DR: For centuries, innovation has been a pejorative concept, and there has been no study of what innovation is as discussed by the authors, but it became instrumental to political and social and later material or economic goals between c.1750 and c.1850.
Journal ArticleDOI
Venturing beyond Koselleck’s Erwartungshorizont: on the category of the utopian
TL;DR: For a long time, the reception of German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck's work focused on disciplinary and methodological aspects of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte).
Journal ArticleDOI
Federalism and the Spanish First Democratic Republic, 1873-1874
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical discussion on the principles that were enshrined in the Project of a Federal Constitution of the Spanish Republic of 1873 and the events that led to the first Democratic Republic in Spain, in order to highlight some basic tenets of federalism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Experience, Materiality and the Rules of Past Writing: Interrogating Reference
TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between history and autobiography in terms of the "rules" and attitudes relating to their production and consumption is examined, and the relationship between the two genres is discussed.
Journal ArticleDOI
A New Hypothesis: The Behistun Inscription as Imperial Calendar
TL;DR: In this article, a function for the dates in the Behistun inscription of Darius I was proposed, that alongside its telling of an authorised story of righteous accession it made possible, and perhap...