Autorentext

Niklas Olsen received his PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen working on a project on the variants of liberalism in Denmark and Western Europe, 19451990.

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It offers the first comprehensive study of one of the most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century It contributes to the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s until the present It contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Family - war - university: the various educations of Reinhart Koselleck
Chapter 2. Explaining, criticizing and revising modern political thought
Chapter 3. Social history between reform and revolution
Chapter 4. Program - project - straight jacket: the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
Chapter 5. Theorizing historical time and historical writing
Chapter 6. Commemorating the dead: experience, understanding, identity
Chapter 7. The foundations and the future of Koselleck's scholarly program

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