Dans la notice « crise » des Concepts historiques fondamentaux, Reinhard Koselleck propose une archéologie de la notion et de ses usages, depuis l’Antiquité grecque et romaine jusqu’au xxe siècle. ...Attentif aux temporalités parfois décalées du changement social et du changement linguistique, Koselleck analyse minutieusement, de manière chronologique, les usages multiples du terme, les discordances et concordances dans ses significations à partir d’un corpus principalement imprimé de médecine, de lexiques et dictionnaires, de publicistique, de philosophie. Analysée comme un « concept historique fondamental », la crise se déploie à la fois dans le temps et dans ses usages multiples, concurrents et contradictoires.
Sediments of Time Koselleck, Reinhart; Franzel, Sean; Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig
2018, 2018-05-08
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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.
The bells tolling on 9 May 1945 were heralding peace. The question remained: what kind of peace and for whom? Thousands of us marched on a trail for many kilometers, from Mährish-Ostrau eastward, ...like a silent accordion, sometimes extended, sometimes compressed, chased, not knowing where we were going. The voices of the bells echoed over our column and raised hopes from whose nonfulfillment countless people would perish, not being able to bear the disappointments of the new forthcoming peace. However, it was all unknown to us, we did not even know where we were going. Yet we knew where we were coming from, from the cauldron that had continuously tightened over four weeks, and from which we had definitely failed to escape on 1 May. With a wounded soldier on my back, I laid down my gun. At that point, we didn't know yet that the Americans would hand all the prisoners that had reached the redemptive West from Bohemia and Moravia back to the Russians. So this fight had been futile and every death in vain. The dead were still lying around in countless numbers.
Das Wagnis einer neuen Gesamtdarstellung, welche die facettenreichen Ergebnisse der Spezialforschung wirklich verarbeitet, dürfte weniger schwer fallen, wenn es vorbereitet wird durch repräsentative ...Querschnitte zu den Hauptbereichen der Revolutionsgeschichte unter integrierenden gemeinsamen Fragestellungen. Einen solchen weiterführenden Gemeinschaftsbeitrag zu leisten, war das Ziel der Bielefelder Arbeitstagung, aus welcher der vorliegende Band hervorgegangen ist.
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.
This is the first English translation of Reinhart Koselleck's "Introduction" to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG, Basic Concepts in History: A Historical Dictionary of Political and Social ...Language in Germany), which charts how in German-speaking Europe the accelerated changes occurring between the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution were perceived, conceptualized and incorporated into political and social language, registering the transition from a hierarchy of orders to modern societies. The "Introduction" presents the problematic and method formulated in 1972 by Koselleck for writing the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte). During the twenty-five years needed to complete the GG, he continued to revise and develop this method. In prefaces written for subsequent volumes, he replied to criticisms of its choice of basic concepts and findings. In these prefaces Koselleck both summarized the great contribution to our historical knowledge of political and social terms that this work and its index volumes had made, and suggested further research projects to build upon its achievements. KEYWORDS basic historical concepts (Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe), bipolar oppositions (Gegenbegriffe), categorizing concepts (Leitbegriffe), diachronic and synchronic analyses, historical semantics and social history, history of basic political and social concepts (Begriffsgeschichte), period of transition to modern societies (Schwellenzeit, Sattelzeit), Reinhart Koselleck
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