Conceptual History in the European Space (European Conceptual History Book 1)

The Result Of Extensive Collaboration Among Leading Scholars From Across The European Continent, 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. Introduction: Conceptual History : Challenges, Conundrums, Complexities / Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden -- Europe At Different Speeds : Asynchronicities And Multiple Times In European Conceptual History / Helge Jordheim -- Multiple Transformations : Temporal Frameworks For A European Conceptual History / Willibald Steinmetz -- Concepts And Debates : Rhetorical Perspectives On Conceptual Change / Kari Palonen -- Conceptual History, Ideology And Language / Michael Freeden -- Transnational Conceptual History, Methodological Nationalism And Europe / Jani Marjanen -- Conceptual History : The Comparative Dimension / Jorn Leonhard -- Concepts, Contests And Contexts : Conceptual History And The Problem Of Translatability / László Kontler -- Conceptualizing Spaces Within Europe : The Case Of Meso-regions / Diana Mishkova, Balázs Trencsényi -- Conceptualizing Modernity In Multi- And Intercultural Spaces : The Case Of Central And Eastern Europe / Victor Neumann -- Concepts In A Nordic Periphery / Henrik Stenius -- Conclusions: Setting The Agenda For A European Conceptual History / Javier Fernández Sebastián. Edited By Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden, And Javier Fernández Sebastián. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts.