TY - BOOK AU - Junge,Kay AU - Postoutenko,Kirill TI - Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck: Historical Semantics and Beyond T2 - Histoire SN - 9783837615890 AV - P299.A85 A89 2011eb U1 - 943.0072 PY - 2014///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Asymmetry (Linguistics) KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Historiography KW - Methodology KW - Philosophy KW - Semantics, Historical KW - Cultural History KW - Discourse Analysis KW - Historical Semantics KW - History of Science KW - History of the 20th Century KW - Language KW - Political Anthropology KW - Security Studies KW - Theory of History KW - HISTORY / General KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the historical semantics of the oppositions »Hellenes«/»barbarians«, »Christians«/»pagans« and »Übermensch«/»Untermensch«, but his insights, though eagerly cited, have been rarely developed in a systematic fashion.This volume intends to remedy this situation by bringing together a small number of scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science and international studies in order to elaborate on Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and adapt it to current research needs UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839415894 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839415894/original ER -