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Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck – Historical Semantics and Beyond
Kay Junge
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Description for Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck – Historical Semantics and Beyond
Paperback. Editor(s): Junge, Kay; Postoutenko, Kirill. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837615890
SKU
V9783837615890
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About Kay Junge
Kay Junge teaches sociology at the University of Constance and is currently the Visiting Chair at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. Kirill Postoutenko (PhD) teaches literature, sociology and anthropology at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Saint-Petersburg and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Paris.
Reviews for Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck – Historical Semantics and Beyond
Reviewed in: IDÄNTUTKIMUS, 2 (2012), Jaakko Turunen Zeitschrift für historische Forschung, 40/2 (2013), Theo Jung