Conceptual History in the European Space

Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden, Javier Fernández-Sebastián (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-494-0 (ISBN)

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This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

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.

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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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

Jörn Leonhard

Chapter 7. Concepts, Contests and Contexts: Conceptual History and the Problem of Translatability

László Kontler

Chapter 8. Conceptualizing Spaces within Europe: The Case of Meso-Regions

Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi

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 Fernández-Sebastián

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	European Conceptual History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78920-494-1 / 1789204941
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-494-0 / 9781789204940
Zustand	Neuware