Author: Niels Akerstrom Anderse
Publisher: Policy Pre
Keywords: koselleck, laclau, luhmann, foucault, understanding, analytical, strategies, discursive
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1861344392
ISBN-13: 9781861344397
The creation of knowledge and discourse is integral to modern society and is no longer the preserve of scientific institutions such as universities. Political institutions are being established which have the explicit purpose of producing meaning and language; spin-doctors shape "knowledge" to sway public opinion; while business and industry is taking on the "management of meaning". All influence how we understand our society and shape political agendas. More than ever, therefore, we need to be able to step back and question the production of meaning. This textbook attempts to fill a gap in th
Author: Reinhart Koselleck
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: history, cultural, memory, concepts, present, spacing, conceptual, timing, practice
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-07-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0804743053
ISBN-13: 9780804743051
Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical method. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of Begriffsgeschichte, a methodology of historical studies that focuses on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.The eighteen essays in this volume illustrate the four theses of Kosellecks concept
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