Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck
Historical Semantics and Beyond
Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the historical semantics of the oppositions »Hellenes«/»barbarians«, »Christians«/»pagans« and »Übermensch«/»Untermensch«, but his insights, though eagerly cited, have been rarely developed in a systematic fashion.
This volume intends to remedy this situation by bringing together a small number of scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science and international studies in order to elaborate on Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and adapt it to current research needs.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Self-Concepts, Counter-Concepts, Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts
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Linguistic Semantics and Historical Semantics
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Asymmetrical Concepts and Political Asymmetries
Seiten 81 - 114 -
Three Takes on the Counter-Revolutionary
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'We are the Barbarians'
Seiten 141 - 164 -
On Histories, Revolutions, and the Masses
Seiten 165 - 196 -
From Asymmetries to Concepts
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Authors
Seiten 253 - 256
3 August 2011, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-1589-4
File size: 2.09 MB
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