On the Notion of Historical (Dis)Continuity: Reinhart Koselleck's Construction of the Sattelzeit

Motzkin, Gabriel

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“…Koselleck proposed the term Sattelzeit as a heuristic tool for particular period of conceptual rupture in European history, arguing that the pace of semantic transformation had dramatically increased during this time, eventually leading to the formation of modern political concepts and ideologies. The utility of Sattelzeit as a heuristic device for European intellectual history has been questioned before, 34 and it is our contention that, in the case of Ottoman conceptual history, proposing a Sattelzeit creates more problems than it solves. Above all, it carries with it the danger of reinforcing the Orientalist narratives we set out to challenge.…”

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Ottoman Conceptual History

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Wigen

2019

Contributions to the History of Concepts

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In this article, we discuss the pitfalls and benefits of conceptual history as an approach to Ottoman studies. While Ottoman studies is blossoming and using a wider set of tools to study the Ottoman past, Ottoman intellectual history is still resigned to a life-and-works approach. Th is absence of synthesizing attempts has left intellectual history in the margins. In addition to the lack of new, theoretically sophisticated accounts of how Ottoman intellectual and political changes were intertwined, the old Orientalist works still hold canonical status in the field. Drawing on recent developments in social and political history, conceptual history may be a good way of doing self-reflective longue durée intellectual history. Ottoman conceptual history may also off er nonspecialists more sophisticated bases for comparison with non-Ottoman cases.

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Ambivalence, anxieties / Adaptations, advances: Conceptual History and International Law

Clark¹

2018

Leiden Journal of International Law

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Scholars of the history of international law have recently begun to wonder whether their work is predominantly about law or history. The questions we ask – about materials, contexts and movements – all raise intractable problems of historiography. Yet, few scholars have turned to historical theory to think through how we might go about addressing them.This article works towards remedying that gap by exploring why and how we might engage with historiography more deeply.Section 2 shows how the last three decades of the ‘turn to history’ can be usefully read as a move from ambivalence to anxiety. The major works of the 2000s thoroughly removed the pre-1990s ambivalence to history, offering brief considerations about method. Recent efforts building on those works have led to the present era of anxiety about both history and method, raising questions around materials, contexts and movements. But far from a negative state, this moment of anxiety is both appropriate and potentially creative: it prompts us to rethink our mode of engaging with historiography.Section 3 explores how this engagement might proceed. It reconstructs the principles and debates within conceptual history around the anxieties of materials, contexts and movements. It then explores how these might be adapted to histories of international law, both generally and within one concrete project: a conceptual history of recognition in the writings of British jurists.Section 4 concludes by considering the advances achieved by this kind of engagement, and reflects on new directions for international law and its histories.

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Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics

Csuka

2023

British Journal of Aesthetics

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On the Notion of Historical (Dis)Continuity: Reinhart Koselleck's Construction of the Sattelzeit

Cited by 6 publications

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Ottoman Conceptual History

Ottoman Conceptual History

Ambivalence, anxieties / Adaptations, advances: Conceptual History and International Law

Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics

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