Contributions to the History of Concepts
Aims & Scope
Editors: Sinai Rusinek, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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Contributions is the international peer-reviewed journal of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group (HPSCG). It is hosted and sponsored by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
The journal serves as a platform for theoretical and methodological articles as well as empirical studies on the history of concepts and their social, political, and cultural contexts. It aims to promote the dialogue between the history of concepts and other disciplines, such as intellectual history, history of knowledge and science, linguistics, translation studies, history of political thought and discourse analysis.
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Subjects: History, Linguistics
Current Issue, Winter 2011, Volume 6(2)
Reinhart Koselleck: His Concept of the Concept and Neo-Kantianism
Elías José Palti
Does Conceptual History Really Need a Theory of Historical Times?
Helge Jordheim, Ph.D.
SPECIAL PANEL
Introduction: Interdisciplinary Concepts and their Political Significance
Ernst Müller
On the Introduction and Early Discussions of the Metaphor Survival of the Fittest
Falko Schmieder
The Concept of Generation between Life Science and Politics
Stefan Willer
The Fate of Mutation: Shift, Spread and Disjoints in a Conceptual Trajectory
Jörg Thomas Richter
A Concept in Application: How the Scientific Reflex came to be employed against Nazi-Propaganda
Margarete Vöhringer
REVIEW
Koselleck’s Two Visions of History
A Review of Reinhart Koselleck, Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010)
Kari Palonen