Some Presuppositions of «Begriffsgeschichte». Modernity and Historical Consciousness
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Abstract
The claim that modern historical consciousness is peculiarly reflexive has been raised to prominence in recent years by Reinhart Koselleck, pioneer of Begriffsgeschichte, by the discourse analysis of the French School, Foucault, Derrida and Leotard, and by the work of the Cambridge contextual historians, John Pocock, Quentin Skinner and their students. Indeed it seems to be implicit in the claims made across many academic fields that the transitions from pre-modernity to modernity and post-modernity constitute a series of historical breaks. This diverse constellation of thinkers belongs to the world post-Nietzsche and post-Wittgenstein, which gives priority to 'life' and the 'lived experience' over theory and scholastic history (or historicism). Hence the importance of Begriffsgeschichte and contextual history as an empirical investigation of concepts in context.
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