The present article intends to trace the conceptual roots of Koselleck’s concept of the concept. Koselleck’s distinction between ideas and concepts has its roots in the logic of Hegel, who was the first to elaborate on the multivocal nature of concepts as their distinguishing feature vis-à-vis ideas. The main hypothesis proposed here is that Koselleck reformulated Hegel’s view on the basis of the neo-Kantian philosophies developed at the turn of the century, with which his theory maintains a tense relationship, without breaking, however, some of its fundamental premises.
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In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Introduction and Prefaces to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
(Basic Concepts in History: A Historical Dictionary of Political and Social Language in Germany)
Reinhart Koselleck and Michaela Richter
This is the first English translation of Reinhart Koselleck's "Introduction" to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG, Basic Concepts in History: A Historical Dictionary of Political and Social Language in Germany), which charts how in German-speaking Europe the accelerated changes occurring between the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution were perceived, conceptualized and incorporated into political and social language, registering the transition from a hierarchy of orders to modern societies. The "Introduction" presents the problematic and method formulated in 1972 by Koselleck for writing the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte). During the twenty-five years needed to complete the GG, he continued to revise and develop this method. In prefaces written for subsequent volumes, he replied to criticisms of its choice of basic concepts and findings. In these prefaces Koselleck both summarized the great contribution to our historical knowledge of political and social terms that this work and its index volumes had made, and suggested further research projects to build upon its achievements.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Sandro Chignola and João Feres Júnior
Contributions to the History of Concepts has much to celebrate. On one hand, issue number 3 inaugurates the journal’s second volume; its second year of existence. The reception of volume one could not have been better. We have received enthusiastic feedback from readers all over the world. Contributions has published authors from many different countries and from diverse academic milieus and traditions. The international reception of conceptual history has been on the rise for decades and Contributions is both a consequence of and an agent in this process. Our celebration, however, is not without sorrow. On February 3, 2006, Reinhart Koselleck passed away. One of the most influential historians and theoreticians of the last fifty years, Koselleck was simply the most important author in the field of conceptual history and, at the same time, an active promoter of its international reception.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Mar 2006
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- Introduction
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Fiery Streams of Lava, Frozen into Memory. Many Farewells to War
Memories that Are Not Interchangeable
Reinhart Koselleck, Translated By Margrit Pernau, and Sébastien Tremblay
strokes of luck, breathing in deeply, I did not dare to ask him. The fear remained. That too was an end of the war. Reinhart Koselleck, “Glühende Lava, zur Erinnerung geronnen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 6 May 1995, B4. We thank the heirs
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Blake Ewing
study of ideological conceptual systems, drawing political theorists even closer to Reinhart Koselleck’s various essays not only on the methods of Begriffsgeschichte but also on the particular issue of time. Still, beyond the idea of quasi
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- 79–99 (21 total)
Something Happened to the Future
Reconstructing Temporalities in Dutch Parliamentary Debate, 1814–2018
Joris van Eijnatten and Pim Huijnen
Reinhart Koselleck, Vergangene Zukunft (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989), 8; English translations from Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). 12 Ibid., 359. 13 Ibid., 363
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 52–82 (31 total)
Review
On Reinhart Koselleck's Intellectual Relations to Carl Schmitt
Niklas Olsen
Jan Eike Dunkhase, ed., Reinhart Koselleck/Carl Schmitt: Der Briefwechsel 1953–1983 [Reinhart Koselleck/Carl Schmitt: The correspondence 1953–1983] (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019), 459 pp. Sebastian Huhnholz, Von Carl Schmitt zu Hannah
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Book Review
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- 141–146 (6 total)
On the Notion of Historical (Dis)Continuity
Reinhart Koselleck's Construction of the Sattelzeit
Gabriel Motzkin
The author contends that a transition period is conceived in terms of its continuity with preceding or subsequent periods, rather than an entirely discontinuous temporal unit. Thus, in order to conceive of a period of transition, one must assume an overarching historical continuity. This contrasts with Reinhart Koselleck's and Michel Foucault's conception of the period of transition to modernity which is at once a break and part of the modern period. By analyzing how time is experienced in terms of contemporary awareness and retrospective consciousness, the author maps out the epistemological determinations that allow for the conception of a period of transition to modernity such as Sattelzeit.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Oct 2005
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- 145–158 (14 total)
Rudolf Valkhoff
This article traces the main methodological and substantial similarities between Reinhart Koselleck's notion of Begriffsgeschichte and J. G. A. Pocock's approach to the history of political thought. Both approaches are responses to the shift in the unit of analysis in the study of human historical consciousness. Rather than focusing on ideas, Koselleck and Pocock concentrate on how language articulated heightened awareness of historical change. Concepts and paradigms reflect in varying manners the intensity of historical sedimentation. The more sedimentation, less space there is for innovation, and political action tends to be conservative. Conversely, unstable concepts or obsolete paradigms, reflect historical change and space for linguistic innovation.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Mar 2006
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- 83–98 (16 total)
Niklas Olsen, Irene Herrmann, Håvard Brede Aven, and Mohinder Singh
Crisis and Existentialism in the Work of Reinhart Koselleck Gennaro Imbriano, Der Begriff der Politik: Die Moderne als Krisenzeit im Werk von Reinhart Koselleck [The concept of politics: Modernity as a time of crisis in the work of Reinhart
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Book Review
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- 113–130 (18 total)