Conceptual History in the European Space

Willibald Steinmetz is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Bielefeld University.Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London. His main interests are the nature of political thinking, the analysis of ideologies, and the study of liberal thought from the 19th century onwards.Javier Fernandez-Sebastian 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.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Conceptual History: Challenges, Conundrums, ComplexitiesWillibald Steinmetz and Michael FreedenChapter 1. Europe at Different Speeds: Asynchronicities and Multiple Times in European Conceptual HistoryHelge JordheimChapter 2. Multiple Transformations: Temporal Frameworks for a European Conceptual HistoryWillibald SteinmetzChapter 3. Concepts and Debates: Rhetorical Perspectives on Conceptual ChangeKari PalonenChapter 4. Conceptual History, Ideology and LanguageMichael FreedenChapter 5. Transnational Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism and EuropeJani MarjanenChapter 6. Conceptual History: The Comparative DimensionJoern LeonhardChapter 7. Concepts, Contests and Contexts: Conceptual History and the Problem of TranslatabilityLaszlo KontlerChapter 8. Conceptualizing Spaces within Europe: The Case of Meso-RegionsDiana Mishkova and Balazs TrencsenyiChapter 9. Conceptualizing Modernity in Multi- and Intercultural Spaces: The Case of Central and Eastern EuropeVictor NeumannChapter 10. Concepts in a Nordic PeripheryHenrik SteniusConclusions: Setting the Agenda for a European Conceptual HistoryJavier Fernandez-SebastianIndex

"Taken together, these essays represent a landmark in conceptual history's theoretical and methodological development. They are a testament to its practitioners' creative and fruitful engagement with methods and approaches forged beyond the field of intellectual history. By adding layers of depth to our understanding of both concepts and the semantic fields in which they have operated, their authors go some way towards establishing a post-Koselleckian research agenda that can allow conceptual history to flourish as it expands its own horizons of possibility." Sehepunkte