12. Three burgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England, and France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Contributors ix
5. 1. On the Need for Theory in the Discipline of History 1
6. 2. Social History and Conceptual History 20
7. 3. Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics of Discourse 38
8. 4. Transformations of Experience and Methodological Change: A Historical-Anthropological Essay 45
9. 5. The Temporalization of Utopia 84
10. 6. Time and History 100
11. 7. Concepts of Historical Time and Social History 115
12. 8. The Unknown Future and the Art of Prognosis 131
13. 9. Remarks on the Revolutionary Calendar and Neue Zeit 148
14. 10. The Eighteenth Century as the Beginning of Modernity 154
15. 11. On the Anthropological and Semantic Structure of Bildung 170
16. 12. Three burgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England, and France 208
17. 13. "Progress" and "Decline": An Appendix to the History of Two Concepts 218
18. 14. Some Questions Regarding the Conceptual History of"Crisis" 236
19. 15. The Limits of Emancipation: A Conceptual-Historical Sketch 248
20. 16. Daumier and Death 265
21. 17. War Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors 285
22. 18. Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams 327
23. Notes 341