The Practice of Conceptual History

The Practice of Conceptual History
Author: Reinhart Koselleck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804743051

Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of Begriffsgeschichte, a methodology of historical studies exemplified in these 18 essays, which focus on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.

History of Concepts

History of Concepts
Author: Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789053563069

Hoewel enorm invloedrijk in Duitstalig Europa, heeft de conceptuele geschiedschrijving (Begriffsgeschichte) tot nu toe weinig aandacht in het Engels gekregen. Dit genre van intellectuele geschiedschrijving verschilt van zowel de Franse geschiedschrijving van mentalités als de Engelstalige geschiedschrijving van verhandelingen door het concept. Aan de hand van practische voorbeelden in de geschiedschrijving wordt deze vorm toegelicht door Bram Kempers, Eddy de Jongh en Rolf Reichardt.

Conceptual History in the European Space

Conceptual History in the European Space
Author: Willibald Steinmetz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785334832

The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.

Politics and ‘Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France

Politics and ‘Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Emma Claussen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108844170

Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.

Political Innovation and Conceptual Change

Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1989-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521359788

This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe
Author: Tuija Pulkkinen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317041445

'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion presents an alternative view to the widespread assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. Rather, it questions the universal validity of such an assumption by searching the history of European politics and by paying specific attention to the struggles of democratization accomplished outside Western Europe. The authors apply a comparative approach to analyzing debates in the primary sources in a number of countries and languages and situate the results into a broader European context. Focusing on European democratization from different historical and analytical perspectives, they discuss the politics, concepts and histories involved in democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.

History in the Plural

History in the Plural
Author: Niklas Olsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857452967

Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of “grand theory,” Koselleck was an inspiration to many scholars and helped move the discipline into new directions (such as conceptual history, theories of historical times and memory) and across disciplinary and national boundaries. He thus achieved a degree of international fame that was unusual for a German historian after 1945. This book not only presents the life and work of a “great thinker” and European intellectual, it also contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences and to our knowledge of the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s to the present.

Violence and Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521761735

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

Sediments of Time

Sediments of Time
Author: Reinhart Koselleck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1503605973

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.