The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.
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List of Figures
Introduction: Conceptual History: Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities
Willibald Steinmetz and Michael Freeden
Chapter 1. Europe at Different Speeds: Asynchronicities and Multiple Times in European Conceptual History
Helge Jordheim
Chapter 2. Multiple Transformations: Temporal Frameworks for a European Conceptual History
Willibald Steinmetz
Chapter 3. Concepts and Debates: Rhetorical Perspectives on Conceptual Change
Kari Palonen
Chapter 4. Conceptual History, Ideology and Language
Michael Freeden
Chapter 5. Transnational Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism and Europe
Jani Marjanen
Chapter 6. Conceptual History: The Comparative Dimension
Jörn Leonhard
Chapter 7. Concepts, Contests and Contexts: Conceptual History and the Problem of Translatability
László Kontler
Chapter 8. Conceptualizing Spaces within Europe: The Case of Meso-Regions
Diana Mishkova and Balázs Trencsényi
Chapter 9. Conceptualizing Modernity in Multi- and Intercultural Spaces: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
Victor Neumann
Chapter 10. Concepts in a Nordic Periphery
Henrik Stenius
Conclusions: Setting the Agenda for a European Conceptual History
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Index
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Javier Fernández-Sebastián is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country. He has published extensively on modern intellectual and conceptual history, with a particular focus on Spain and the Iberian world. He serves on the editorial board of various journals as well as the series International Archives of the History of Ideas with Springer Verlag. He has recently edited the volumes Political Concepts and Time: New Approaches to Conceptual History (2011) and La Aurora de la Libertad. Los primeros liberalismos en el mundo iberoamerican (2012).