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Reinhart Koselleck is regarded as one of the most important theorists of
history and historiography of the late 20th century. His work has implications
for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the
practical problems of historical method. He is an 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 18 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. Reinhart Koselleck is regarded as one of the most important theorists of
history and historiography of the late 20th century, and is an exponent and
practitioner of "Begriffsgeschichte". The 18 essays in this volume illustrate
the four theses of Koselleck's concept of history.
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