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The Practice of Conceptual History - Timing History, Spacing Concepts (Hardcover)
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The Practice of Conceptual History - Timing History, Spacing Concepts (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of
history and historiography of the last half century. His work has
implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far
beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical method.
He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of
"Begriffsgeschichte," a methodology of historical studies that
focuses on the invention and development of the fundamental
concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner
of being in the world.
The eighteen essays in this volume illustrate the four theses of
Koselleck's concept of history. First, historical process is marked
by a distinctive kind of temporality different from that found in
nature. This temporality is multileveled and subject to different
rates of acceleration and deceleration, and functions not only as a
matrix within which historical events happen but also as a causal
force in the determination of social reality in its own right.
Second, historical reality is social reality, an internally
differentiated structure of functional relationships in which the
rights and interests of one group collide with those of other
groups, and lead to the kinds of conflict in which defeat is
experienced as an ethical failure requiring reflection on "what
went wrong" to determine the historical significance of the
conflict itself.
Third, the history of historiography is a history of the evolution
of the language of historians. In this respect, Koselleck's work
converges with that of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, all of whom
stress the status of historiography as discourse rather than as
discipline, and feature the constitutive nature of historical
discourse as against its claim to literal truthfulness.
Finally, the fourth aspect of Koselleck's notion of the concept of
history is that a properly historicist concept of history is
informed by the realization that what we call modernity is nothing
more than an aspect of the discovery of history's concept in our
age. The aporias of modernism--in arts and letters as well as in
the human and natural sciences--are a function of the discovery of
the historicity of both society and knowledge.
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