Koselleck, Reinhart.

The practice of conceptual history : timing history, spacing conc epts / Reinhart Koselleck ; translated by Todd Samuel Presner and ot hers ; foreword by Hayden White. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002. - xiv, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .

Includes bibliographical references.

On the need for theory in the discipline of history -- Social histor y and conceptual history -- Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics of d iscourse -- Transformations of experience and methodological change : a historical-anthropological essay -- The temporalization of utopia -- T ime and history -- Concepts of historical time and social history -- Th e unknown future and the art of prognosis -- Remarks on the revolutiona ry calendar and Neue Zeit -- The eighteenth century as the beginning of modernity -- On the anthropological and semantic structure of Bildung -- Three burgerliche worlds? : preliminary theoretical-historical remar ks on the comparative semantics of civil society in Germany, England, a nd France -- "Progress" and "decline" : an appendix to the history of t wo concepts -- Some questions regarding the conceptual history of "cris is" -- The limits of emancipation : a conceptual-historical sketch -- D aumier and death -- War memorials : identity formations of the survivor s -- Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of dreams.

0804740224 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804743053 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002-001374


History--Periodization.
History--Philosophy.
Semantics, Historical.

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