scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessBook

The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts

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 327

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Ideology in practice: the career of sustainability as an ideological concept in strategic urban planning

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach for analyzing ideology dynamics in strategic urban planning based on post-foundational political theory is presented, which draws on empirical material of strategic planners discussi...
Book ChapterDOI

Working with “Translocality”: Conceptual Implications and Analytical Consequences

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine translocality with regard to its diverse conceptualizations as a research perspective, a middle-range theory or a social fact, its potential added value and its operational limits.

Measuring the Acceleration of the Social Construction of Time using the BOE (Boletin Oficial del Estado)

TL;DR: This paper will present an increased IV and ID over the observation time, indicating more and more facts being reported, and evidence of an acceleration of the social construction of time.
Book ChapterDOI

The Changing Meanings of `Responsible University'. From a Nordic-Keynesian Welfare State to a Schumpeterian Competition State

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the evolution of the meaning of socio-spatially responsible university in Finnish higher education policy from the late 1950s to the 2010s, and describe how the idea of spatial (regional) responsibility of universities has been conceptualized during the Nordic-Keynesian welfare state era and the following Schumpeterian competition state period.
Book

Feminism in Time

TL;DR: In a recent special issue on "Feminism in time" as discussed by the authors, the authors address the reader from the pages of this special issue with the question "When did feminism in time start?" The answer is "like the White Rabbit".