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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494617003321

Autore

Olsen Niklas <1975->

Titolo

History in the plural [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to the work of Reinhart Koselleck / / Niklas Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-78238-382-4

1-280-49667-3

9786613591906

0-85745-296-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

943.007202

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Historiography - Germany

Political science - History

Historians - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Family, war, university : the various educations of Reinhart Koselleck -- Explaining, criticizing and revising modern political thought -- Social history between reform and revolution -- Program, project, straight jacket : the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe -- Theorizing historical time and historical writing -- Commemorating the dead : experience, understanding, identity -- The foundations and the future of Koselleck's scholarly program.

Sommario/riassunto

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