History in the Plural

An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-295-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsen, Niklas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Family - war - university: the various educations of Reinhart Koselleck

Chapter 2. Explaining, criticizing and revising modern political thought

Chapter 3. Social history between reform and revolution

Chapter 4. Program - project - straight jacket: the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe

Chapter 5. Theorizing historical time and historical writing

Chapter 6. Commemorating the dead: experience, understanding, identity

Chapter 7. The foundations and the future of Koselleck’s scholarly program

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olsen, Niklas
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.