Overview

The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.

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Author:   Willibald Steinmetz ,  Michael Freeden ,  Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9781785334825

ISBN 10:   1785334824
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: Conceptual History: Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities Willibald Steinmetz and Michael Freeden Chapter 1. Europe at Different Speeds: Asynchronicities and Multiple Times in European Conceptual History Helge Jordheim Chapter 2. Multiple Transformations: Temporal Frameworks for a European Conceptual History Willibald Steinmetz Chapter 3. Concepts and Debates: Rhetorical Perspectives on Conceptual Change Kari Palonen Chapter 4. Conceptual History, Ideology and Language Michael Freeden Chapter 5. Transnational Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism and Europe Jani Marjanen Chapter 6. Conceptual History: The Comparative Dimension Joern Leonhard Chapter 7. Concepts, Contests and Contexts: Conceptual History and the Problem of Translatability Laszlo Kontler Chapter 8. Conceptualizing Spaces within Europe: The Case of Meso-Regions Diana Mishkova and Balazs Trencsenyi Chapter 9. Conceptualizing Modernity in Multi- and Intercultural Spaces: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe Victor Neumann Chapter 10. Concepts in a Nordic Periphery Henrik Stenius Conclusions: Setting the Agenda for a European Conceptual History Javier Fernandez-Sebastian Index

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Taken together, these essays represent a landmark in conceptual history's theoretical and methodological development. They are a testament to its practitioners' creative and fruitful engagement with methods and approaches forged beyond the field of intellectual history. By adding layers of depth to our understanding of both concepts and the semantic fields in which they have operated, their authors go some way towards establishing a post-Koselleckian research agenda that can allow conceptual history to flourish as it expands its own horizons of possibility. - Sehepunkte

Author Information

Willibald Steinmetz is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Bielefeld University. He has published widely on conceptual history and is co-editor of the book series Historische Semantik with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Among his publications are the edited volumes “Politik”: Situationen eines Wortgebrauchs im Europa der Neuzeit (2007), Political Languages in the Age of Extremes (2011) and Historische Semantik des Politischen: Vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, with Ulrich Meier and Martin Papenheim (2012).

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