Concepts of Culture: New Directions in Conceptual History - Library Binding
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Concepts of Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history, broadening the scope of Reinhart Koselleck's original undertaking through a series of experimental case studies in "applied conceptual history." Drawing on contributors from art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, and history, the book o ers theoretically grounded applications of conceptual history to cultural concepts, demonstrating both the plasticity and the urgency of the conceptual historical project today.
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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