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Seriality

Sean Franzel – Though the term seriality is not a central element of Koselleck’s critical vocabulary, his work is very much attuned to how patterns of repetition and variation—defining features of serial forms—shape experiences of historical events, organize language use, and inform how historical sources are produced and evaluated.

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‘The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration’: Metanarrative, Legitimacy, and History (with apologies to Mark Twain)

Luke O’Sullivan – In The Postmodern Condition Jean-François Lyotard defined a metanarrative as a vision of the historical process that served some legitimatory role. A metanarrative did not need to make claims regarding historical necessity, but it must function as a justification of a political position of some kind. Subsequent developments suggest that while his definition was sound, his prediction that metanarratives were in decline was falsified by events.

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Habitus

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey – Das Telefon läutet. Am Apparat ist Reinhart Koselleck. Ob ich schon die FAZ gelesen habe? Wenn nicht, müsse ich sofort losgehen, um ein Exemplar zu kaufen, und die Sportseite aufschlagen. Dort fände ich ein Bild, das ausdrücke, was Bildung nicht ist. Das Bild, auf das Koselleck meine Aufmerksamkeit richtet, hängt seitdem an meiner Regalwand.

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Koselleck’s Theory of History and Its Subversive Potential

Victor Neumann – Despite the fact that Koselleck’s history of concepts and theory of history have long remained fairly marginal in Germany, the impact of Koselleck’s work in the international context is impressive. Kritik und Krise and Vergangene Zukunft were translated into several languages immediately after their appearance in German, while Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe served as a model universally recognised by the academic world in Europe and the Americas.

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Wie ich versuche, mediävistische Intersektionalitätsforschung zu vermitteln

Kristin Skottki – Im Sinne des Blog-Issues „Theorie als Praxis“ halte ich es für wichtig, wenn sich Lehrende mit Studierenden über Theorieangebote austauschen, die nicht genuin aus der eigenen Fachtradition hervorgegangen sind. Denn solche Angebote tragen in sich das Potenzial, nicht nur den Blick auf den historischen Gegenstand zu verändern, sondern auch zur Reflexion über die historiographische, geschichtsdidaktische und akademische Praxis anzuregen.

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Defeat

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young – Koselleck wrote that defeat in war is the greatest transformational experience because it maximizes the distance between a planned course of action and an unplanned outcome. Therefore, as unpleasant or traumatic as it may be, being defeated “contains an inexhaustible epistemological potential” and has stood behind many innovations in historical methodology, including his own following his experience as a soldier of the defeated German army.

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