Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of detailed research. 35 years ago Reinhart Koselleck sketched out the historical semantics of the oppositions »Hellenes«/»barbarians«, »Christians«/»pagans« and »Übermensch«/»Untermensch«, but his insights, though eagerly cited, have been rarely developed in a systematic fashion.

This volume intends to remedy this situation by bringing together a small number of scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science and international studies in order to elaborate on Koselleck's notion of asymmetric counter-concepts and adapt it to current research needs.

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Cover Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck
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Self-Concepts, Counter-Concepts, Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts: Some Aspects of a Multi-Faceted Agenda
Linguistic Semantics and Historical Semantics
Asymmetrical Concepts and Political Asymmetries: A Comparative Glance at 20th Century Democracies and Totalitarianisms from a Discursive Standpoint
Three Takes on the Counter-Revolutionary: Studying Asymmetrical Political Concepts in the People’s Republic of China
‘We are the Barbarians’: Thomas Hobbes, the American Savage and the Debate about British Antiquity
On Histories, Revolutions, and the Masses: Visions of Asymmetry and Symmetry in German Social Sciences
From Asymmetries to Concepts
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