Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of "Begriffsgeschichte," a methodology of historical studies exemplified in these 18 essays, which focus on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.
Über den Autor Reinhart Koselleck
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Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), Professor in Bochum, Heidelberg und Bielefeld, Mitglied zahlreicher Akademien und Kollegien. Bahnbrechende Studien zur Geschichte der europäischen Aufklärung, zur Theorie der Geschichte und zur Begriffsgeschichte.
