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Author Junge, Kay

Title Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck : Historical Semantics and Beyond
Published Bielefeld : Transcript, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Histoire ; v. 20
Histoire
Contents Cover Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck; Contents; Self-Concepts, Counter-Concepts, Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts: Some Aspects of a Multi-Faceted Agenda ; Linguistic Semantics and Historical Semantics
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Summary 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, litera
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Subject Koselleck, Reinhart -- Congresses
SUBJECT Koselleck, Reinhart fast
Subject History -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Historiography -- Congresses
History -- Methodology -- Congresses
Asymmetry (Linguistics) -- History -- Congresses
Semantics, Historical -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY / General
Asymmetry (Linguistics)
Historiography
History -- Methodology
History -- Philosophy
Semantics, Historical
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Postoutenko, Kirill
ISBN 3839415896
9783839415894