The practice of conceptual history
Subtitle: timing history, spacing concepts
By: Reinhart Koselleck ; translated by Todd Samuel Presner and others ; foreword by Hayden White.
Contributors: Presner, Todd Samuel.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: History -- Periodization; History -- Philosophy; Historiography; Semantics, Historical; History -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On the need for theory in the discipline of history; title: Social history and conceptual history; title: Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics of discourse; title: Transformations of experience and methodological change : a historical-anthropological essay; title: The temporalization of utopia; title: Time and history; title: Concepts of historical time and social history; title: The unknown future and the art of prognosis; title: Remarks on the revolutionary calendar and Neue Zeit; title: The eighteenth century as the beginning of modernity; title: On the anthropological and semantic structure of Bildung; title: Three bürgerliche worlds? : preliminary theoretical-historical remarks on the comparative semantics of civil society in Germany, England, and France; title: "Progress" and "decline" : an appendix to the history of two concepts; title: Some questions regarding the conceptual history of "crisis"; title: The limits of emancipation : a conceptual-historical sketch; title: Daumier and death; title: War memorials : identity formations of the survivors; title: Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of dreams.