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Offering an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history, Concepts of Culture broadens its scope through a series of experimental case studies in ‘applied conceptual history’. Bringing together Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, and history— it offers a range of theoretically reflected applications of conceptual history that focus on the cultural concepts, and thereby contribute to the methodological development of these particular fields of research.
Mattias Pirholt is a professor of Literature at Uppsala University (Sweden). He has written extensively on Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz, and the German Romantics. His book publications include Metamimesis: Imitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism (2012), Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (Winter, 2018), Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe (co-ed. with Camilla Flodin and Gerad Gentry, 2024), and Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture (co-ed. with Thorsten Carstensen, 2025).
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Introduction
Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin
Chapter 1. Dream, Lies, and Secrets: Koselleck’s Fictions
Helge Jordheim
Chapter 2. The Temporal Synopsis of Concepts: The Image as a Modelling Framework in Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and Theory of Historical Times
Bettina Brandt
Chapter 3. Koselleck’s Inventories: Notes on the Media Practices of Conceptual History
Sean Franzel
Chapter 4. The Tragedy of the Commonplace: On the Erosive Use of Language in Modernity
Jakob Norberg
Chapter 5. When Time Becomes Form: Pseudomrophosis in Spengler, Jonas, and Blumenberg
Eva Geulen
Chapter 6. Genealogies of the Artificial
Stephan Kammer
Chapter 7. Das Volk dichten: Herder’s Volksbegriff and the Metaphorology of Conceptual History
Chloe Vaughn
Chapter 8. “Is everything then poetry?”: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Early Romantic Concept of Poesie
Mattias Pirholt
Chapter 9. Realism as Versittlichung
Michael Lipkin
Chapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Youth Concept: Intergenerational Conflict in Walter Hasenclever’s Der Sohn and Hanns Johst’s Schlageter
Leonie Ettinger
Chapter 11. Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Idea of History as “Permanent Catastrophe”
Jonathon Catlin
Conclusion
Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin
Index