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Concepts of Culture

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An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others....
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Offering an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history, Concepts of Culture broadens its scope through a series of experimental case studies in ‘applied conceptual history’. Bringing together Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, and history— it offers a range of theoretically reflected applications of conceptual history that focus on the cultural concepts, and thereby contribute to the methodological development of these particular fields of research.
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Price: £104.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Series: European Conceptual History
Publication Date: 15 September 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781836955634
Format: Hardcover
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HISTORY / Social History, History of ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, HISTORY / Historiography, History: theory & methods, Cultural studies, Comparative Literature

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Introduction
Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin

Chapter 1. Dream, Lies, and Secrets: Koselleck’s Fictions
Helge Jordheim

Chapter 2. The Temporal Synopsis of Concepts: The Image as a Modelling Framework in Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and Theory of Historical Times
Bettina Brandt

Chapter 3. Koselleck’s Inventories: Notes on the Media Practices of Conceptual History
Sean Franzel

Chapter 4. The Tragedy of the Commonplace: On the Erosive Use of Language in Modernity
Jakob Norberg

Chapter 5. When Time Becomes Form: Pseudomrophosis in Spengler, Jonas, and Blumenberg
Eva Geulen

Chapter 6. Genealogies of the Artificial
Stephan Kammer

Chapter 7. Das Volk dichten: Herder’s Volksbegriff and the Metaphorology of Conceptual History
Chloe Vaughn

Chapter 8. “Is everything then poetry?”: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Early Romantic Concept of Poesie
Mattias Pirholt

Chapter 9. Realism as Versittlichung
Michael Lipkin

Chapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Youth Concept: Intergenerational Conflict in Walter Hasenclever’s Der Sohn and Hanns Johst’s Schlageter
Leonie Ettinger

Chapter 11. Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Idea of History as “Permanent Catastrophe”
Jonathon Catlin

Conclusion
Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin

Index