"...the first profound comprehensive evaluation of Reinhart Koselleck's work. It is a remarkable achievement in that it analyses Koselleck's major publications and his work at the "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe" in great detail and integrates them into the overall context of his work." · German Studies Review
"Befitting its subject, this book is a methodologically sound and th...
"...the first profound comprehensive evaluation of Reinhart Koselleck's work. It is a remarkable achievement in that it analyses Koselleck's major publications and his work at the "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe" in great detail and integrates them into the overall context of his work." · German Studies Review
"Befitting its subject, this book is a methodologically sound and theoretically sophisticated piece of scholarship. Niklas Olsen has done the English-speaking world a profound service by situating the work of Reinhart Koselleck-one of the most compelling theorists of history of recent memory-back into the many contexts out of which it emerged and which it eventually helped to transform over the course of a distinguished career...Koselleck's meditations on the multi-faceted natures of both historical time and historical writing are more relevant than ever. And to these profound meditations History in the Plural will no doubt remain a trustworthy guide." · American Historical Review
"[Olsen] has an encyclopedic grasp of all of Koselleck's published writings. Commendably, [he] has also mastered the vast secondary literature on Koselleck and includes hundreds of intriguing references for his readers to explore." · Central European History
"All those with an interest in social sciences, and particularly in historical semantics, the theory of history and intellectual history, have every reason to welcome this book and congratulate the author for this splendid accomplishment.. It is essential reading for all those interested in conceptual history, the theory of history, the study of historiography and memory, and in social sciences in general, not only traces the career of that great European intellectual, Reinhart Koselleck, but also, in doing so, offers a broad panorama of some of the crucial theoretical and methodological debates of the past sixty years, while also touching on certain aspects of German political and social life from the post–World War II period." · Contributions to the History of Concepts
"[This] groundbreaking study of Koselleck, his works and the contexts in which he developed his thoughts [is] a welcome contribution to our knowledge of one of the most vital and pertinent historical theorists of the twentieth century. History in the Pluralcontributes to the on-going historiographical discussions about German intellectuals in the twentieth century, and...is a valuable contribution to the reception of Koselleck's work in non-German speaking academic traditions." · European Review of History-Revue européenne d'histoire
Historical change feeds on the vanquished. Should they survive, they create the irreplaceable primary experience of all histories: that histories take another course than that intended by those involved. This always unique experience cannot be chosen and remains unrepeatable. Yet it can be processed through the search for the causes, which last for a middle- or long-term period, and thus are repeatable. This is what distinguishes methods. They can be abstracted from the unique event; they can be applied elsewhere. Once experience has been methodologically transposed into knowledge by the vanquished—and which victor does not finally belong to them?—it remains accessible beyond all change of experience. This might offer some comfort, perhaps a gain. In practice, it would mean saving us from ... (查看原文)
These challenges resulted in what Koselleck described as a “transformation in the iconographic landscape that also changed political sensibility.” More concretely, the experiences of this period called for a new political function of monuments, which, rather than visualizing a bond or an identity between the living and the dead, concerned only the question of the meaning of death. Koselleck wrote: “Although not everywhere and not universally, a tendency has thus grown in the Western world to represent death in foreign or civil war only as a question and no longer as an answer, only as demanding meaning and no longer as establishing meaning. What remains is the identity of the dead with themselves; the capability of memorializing the dead eludes the formal language of political sensibility.... (查看原文)
3 有用 一只蠢璐 2019-06-05 22:18:37
算是毕业论文的起点了！我要加油(ง •̀_•́)ง
1 有用 豆沙馅的Hibana 2024-11-23 20:46:58 天津
与其说是一个系统性的导读，不说是对Koselleck历年重要著作及其旨趣变化轨迹的概览，其生平史料之丰厚、平行对比之复杂已然是传记水平 当然这也有Koselleck本来就没有发展出一套固定的哲学思想或历史研究方法论的体系的缘故 很扎实又很磨叽，怎么说呢，像是现在中国最顶尖的那批老教授写的
0 有用 虚心若愚 2025-03-14 20:59:26 湖北
为了概念史来读，收获其他。