"This is the first intellectual biography, in any language, on
post-war Germany's greatest theorist of history, Reinhart
Koselleck. It not only illuminates Koselleck's role in founding
conceptual history, but also introduces his important accounts of
historical time, of historical anthropology, and of political
iconology. Both students of post-war German intellectual history
and, broadly speaking, of philosophies of history will find this an
immensely rich and stimulating volume." Jan-Werner Muller,
Professor of Politics and Founding Director, Project in the History
of Political Thought, Princeton University
"This is a very thorough and, at the same time, original take on
Reinhard Koselleck's work...As the major representative of German"
Begriffsgeschichte, "he deserves to be better known in the
English-speaking world, and this volume will go a long way to
achieve this aim...It is an excellent contribution to historical
theory and the history of historiography." Stefan Berger,
University of Manchester
."..an impressive book, especially in the way in which the
author succeeds in integrating biographical, historical, and
philosophical elements in an elegant and lucid way-something
achieved by only the best introductions to Western thinkers and
intellectuals." Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo
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.
Niklas Olsen received his PhD in History from the European
University Institute in Florence. He is currently a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Copenhagen working on a project on the
variants of liberalism in Denmark and Western Europe,
1945-1990.
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