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Critique and Crisis

Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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Critique and Crisis

Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

By: Reinhart Koselleck

Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Koselleck's reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. This first English translation of Koselleck's tour de force demonstrates a chronological breadth, a philosophical depth, and an originality which are hardly equalled in any scholarly domain. It is a history of the Enlightenment in miniature, fundamental to our understanding of that period and its consequences. Like Tocqueville, Koselleck views Enlightenment intellectuals as an uprooted, unrealistic group of onlookers who sowed the seeds of the modern political tensions that first flowered in the French Revolution. He argues that it was the split that developed between state and society during the Enlightenment that fostered the emergence of this intellectual elite divorced from the realities of politics. Koselleck describes how this disjunction between political authority proper and its subjects led to private spheres that later became centers of moral authority and, eventually, models for political society that took little or no notice of the constraints under which politicians must inevitably work. In this way progressive bourgeois philosophy, which seemed to offer the promise of a unified and peaceful world, in fact produced just the opposite. The book provides a wealth of examples drawn from all of Europe to illustrate the still relevant message that we evade the constraints and the necessities of the political realm at our own risk. Critique and Crisis is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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MIT Press

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0262611570

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Futures Past

On the Semantics of Historical Time

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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Futures Past

On the Semantics of Historical Time

By: Reinhart Koselleck

Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.

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Columbia University Press

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0231127715

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9780231127714

The Practice of Conceptual History

Timing History, Spacing Concepts

By: Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Samuel Presner

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The Practice of Conceptual History

Timing History, Spacing Concepts

By: Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Samuel Presner

Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of Begriffsgeschichte, a methodology of historical studies exemplified in these 18 essays, which focus on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.

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Stanford University Press

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0804743053

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9780804743051

The Practice of Conceptual History

Timing History, Spacing Concepts

By: Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Samuel Presner

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Timing History, Spacing Concepts

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Sediments of Time

On Possible Histories

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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Sediments of Time

On Possible Histories

By: Reinhart Koselleck

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.

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Stanford University Press

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1503605973

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Futures Past

On the Semantics of Historical Time

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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On the Semantics of Historical Time

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Sediments of Time

On Possible Histories

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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On Possible Histories

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Critique and Crisis

Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

By: Reinhart Koselleck

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Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

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Book's by Reinhart Koselleck

Critique and Crisis

Critique and Crisis

Futures Past

Futures Past

The Practice of Conceptual History

The Practice of Conceptual History

The Practice of Conceptual History

The Practice of Conceptual History

Sediments of Time

Sediments of Time

Futures Past

Futures Past

Sediments of Time

Sediments of Time

Critique and Crisis

Critique and Crisis

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