Jan Ifversen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 800978 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jan Ifversen |
| PRENOMES | Jan |
| SOBRENOME | Ifversen |
| ASSINATURA | IFVERSEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2572-1264 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Fascism
Fascism has returned-not necessarily as a regime type, but as a central concept in political discourse. This editorial examines how the term "fascism" has been used to characterize Trumpism. While some historians have cautioned against simplistic analogies, other commentators and scholars insist that Trump embodies core fascist traits. Conceptual history provides a lens to analyze how fascism functions not only as an analytical category but also …
Traveling Concepts
In 2023, Margrit Pernau stepped down as editor of Contributions to the History of Concepts. She first took up the position as editor in 2009, and, with her fifteen years on the editorial team, she has been by far our longest serving editor. Over the years, Margrit Pernau has played an invaluable role for the journal and for international conceptual history. I guess it would be correct to say that she was born international. She followed her famil…
Groping in the Dark
While Reinhart Koselleck articulated the limits of conceptual history in relation to social history, and the limits of historiographical understanding in his discussion of the event, his thinking about the limits of the conceptual as such is harder to trace. However, a close reading of key texts where he discusses situations or events marked as "meaningless" or absurd, allows us to uncover both his ethics and analytics of the limit of meaning, of…
Part 2
In part one, I followed the debates and the scholars involved in the big bang of international Begriffsgeschichte. Part 2 takes us from the first encounters between the German and the Anglophone tradition within intellectual history to the more formalized efforts of establishing conceptual history on the international, academic scene. With more scholars joining the debate, the understanding of concepts in language and in context were both broaden…
The Birth of International Conceptual History
In March 2020, Melvin Richter, one of the founders of international, conceptual history passed away. This sad occasion makes it timely in our journal to reflect on the process that turned national projects within conceptual and intellectual history into an international and transnational enterprise. The text that follows-published in two parts, here and in the next issue-takes a closer look at the intellectual processes that led up to the foundin…
Heritage and interculturality in EU science diplomacy
In recent years, culture and heritage have explicitly entered into science diplomacy debates and initiatives within the EU system and in EU’s foreign policy. For EU’s external relations heritage offers opportunities for developing partnerships based on shared, entangled histories but also challenges posed by dealing with difficult pasts of domination and colonialism. The paper, therefore, presents a new conceptual model for European science diplo…
European Colonial Heritage in Shanghai
This article investigates various heritage-related practices in the city of Shanghai since the end of colonialism. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the dominant approach was to remove the colonial heritage and replace it with a communist narrative of the people and its heroes. The introduction of market socialism in the 1990s led to a revival of the colonial heritage, but in a form that presented the city as a cos…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
The attraction of ideology
A key question regarding ideology is how we might explain or understand its ability to attract and maintain support from human subjects -in other words what has been called the ‘grip’ of ideology. In the following, we aim to show that such a grip needs to be understood as operating in three different modes. While most contemporary theories of ideology conceive of these modes as symbolic systems and thus understand their grip as generated through …
Time Bandits, Historians, and Concepts of Bad Times
Within the history of concepts, the conceptualization of time is central. Historical actors rely on their experiences for orientation in the present, and they produce expectations about the future. To imagine their horizons of expectation they need concepts about the future. When the future becomes difficult to conceive of for a variety of reasons, they take refuge in concepts describing unruly and uncertain times such as crisis or chaos. Times w…
Civilizing Emotions
About Key Concepts and How to Study Them
The article explores the object and the methodology of conceptual history, by elaborating on Reinhart Koselleck's idea of key concepts, and proposes to study them according to two different aspects of meaning: The representational aspect, which touches upon the relations between words and concepts and studies words and concepts within semantic fields, and the referential aspect, which brings in both the social history reflected in semantic change…
Jacques Guilhaumou and the French School
Every summer I teach an introductory course on the history of concepts, at the Concepta PhD Summer School. 1 Apart from introducing Reinhart Koselleck's development of Begriffsgeschichte, I also give a lecture on what I call the French school of conceptual history.I do not think anyone officially refers to such a French school.Many French schools have been designated, but not within the history of concepts.In my lecture on this particular French …
Who are the Westerners
Europe and European culture - a conceptual analysis1
Current debates on Europe and European culture illustrate the growing difficulties in agreeing on the meaning of Europe. More than ever, Europe is a contested concept. Through a conceptual analysis, this article outlines different positions taken in filling the concept of Europe with meaning. The focus is on Europe as a culture. In line with modern cultural theory, articulations of Europe as a culture may be viewed as displaced within a gamut goi…
Europe and European culture - a conceptual analysis1
Current debates on Europe and European culture illustrate the growing difficulties in agreeing on the meaning of Europe. More than ever, Europe is a contested concept. Through a conceptual analysis, this article outlines different positions taken in filling the concept of Europe with meaning. The focus is on Europe as a culture. In line with modern cultural theory, articulations of Europe as a culture may be viewed as displaced within a gamut goi…
About Key Concepts and How to Study Them
The article explores the object and the methodology of conceptual history, by elaborating on Reinhart Koselleck's idea of key concepts, and proposes to study them according to two different aspects of meaning: The representational aspect, which touches upon the relations between words and concepts and studies words and concepts within semantic fields, and the referential aspect, which brings in both the social history reflected in semantic change…
The attraction of ideology
A key question regarding ideology is how we might explain or understand its ability to attract and maintain support from human subjects -in other words what has been called the ‘grip’ of ideology. In the following, we aim to show that such a grip needs to be understood as operating in three different modes. While most contemporary theories of ideology conceive of these modes as symbolic systems and thus understand their grip as generated through …
Part 2
In part one, I followed the debates and the scholars involved in the big bang of international Begriffsgeschichte. Part 2 takes us from the first encounters between the German and the Anglophone tradition within intellectual history to the more formalized efforts of establishing conceptual history on the international, academic scene. With more scholars joining the debate, the understanding of concepts in language and in context were both broaden…
The Birth of International Conceptual History
In March 2020, Melvin Richter, one of the founders of international, conceptual history passed away. This sad occasion makes it timely in our journal to reflect on the process that turned national projects within conceptual and intellectual history into an international and transnational enterprise. The text that follows-published in two parts, here and in the next issue-takes a closer look at the intellectual processes that led up to the foundin…
Europe and European culture - a conceptual analysis1
Current debates on Europe and European culture illustrate the growing difficulties in agreeing on the meaning of Europe. More than ever, Europe is a contested concept. Through a conceptual analysis, this article outlines different positions taken in filling the concept of Europe with meaning. The focus is on Europe as a culture. In line with modern cultural theory, articulations of Europe as a culture may be viewed as displaced within a gamut goi…
Jacques Guilhaumou and the French School
Every summer I teach an introductory course on the history of concepts, at the Concepta PhD Summer School. 1 Apart from introducing Reinhart Koselleck's development of Begriffsgeschichte, I also give a lecture on what I call the French school of conceptual history.I do not think anyone officially refers to such a French school.Many French schools have been designated, but not within the history of concepts.In my lecture on this particular French …
Who are the Westerners
About Key Concepts and How to Study Them
The article explores the object and the methodology of conceptual history, by elaborating on Reinhart Koselleck's idea of key concepts, and proposes to study them according to two different aspects of meaning: The representational aspect, which touches upon the relations between words and concepts and studies words and concepts within semantic fields, and the referential aspect, which brings in both the social history reflected in semantic change…
Civilizing Emotions
The attraction of ideology
A key question regarding ideology is how we might explain or understand its ability to attract and maintain support from human subjects -in other words what has been called the ‘grip’ of ideology. In the following, we aim to show that such a grip needs to be understood as operating in three different modes. While most contemporary theories of ideology conceive of these modes as symbolic systems and thus understand their grip as generated through …
Time Bandits, Historians, and Concepts of Bad Times
Within the history of concepts, the conceptualization of time is central. Historical actors rely on their experiences for orientation in the present, and they produce expectations about the future. To imagine their horizons of expectation they need concepts about the future. When the future becomes difficult to conceive of for a variety of reasons, they take refuge in concepts describing unruly and uncertain times such as crisis or chaos. Times w…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Heritage and interculturality in EU science diplomacy
In recent years, culture and heritage have explicitly entered into science diplomacy debates and initiatives within the EU system and in EU’s foreign policy. For EU’s external relations heritage offers opportunities for developing partnerships based on shared, entangled histories but also challenges posed by dealing with difficult pasts of domination and colonialism. The paper, therefore, presents a new conceptual model for European science diplo…
European Colonial Heritage in Shanghai
This article investigates various heritage-related practices in the city of Shanghai since the end of colonialism. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the dominant approach was to remove the colonial heritage and replace it with a communist narrative of the people and its heroes. The introduction of market socialism in the 1990s led to a revival of the colonial heritage, but in a form that presented the city as a cos…
Part 2
In part one, I followed the debates and the scholars involved in the big bang of international Begriffsgeschichte. Part 2 takes us from the first encounters between the German and the Anglophone tradition within intellectual history to the more formalized efforts of establishing conceptual history on the international, academic scene. With more scholars joining the debate, the understanding of concepts in language and in context were both broaden…
The Birth of International Conceptual History
In March 2020, Melvin Richter, one of the founders of international, conceptual history passed away. This sad occasion makes it timely in our journal to reflect on the process that turned national projects within conceptual and intellectual history into an international and transnational enterprise. The text that follows-published in two parts, here and in the next issue-takes a closer look at the intellectual processes that led up to the foundin…
Groping in the Dark
While Reinhart Koselleck articulated the limits of conceptual history in relation to social history, and the limits of historiographical understanding in his discussion of the event, his thinking about the limits of the conceptual as such is harder to trace. However, a close reading of key texts where he discusses situations or events marked as "meaningless" or absurd, allows us to uncover both his ethics and analytics of the limit of meaning, of…
Fascism
Fascism has returned-not necessarily as a regime type, but as a central concept in political discourse. This editorial examines how the term "fascism" has been used to characterize Trumpism. While some historians have cautioned against simplistic analogies, other commentators and scholars insist that Trump embodies core fascist traits. Conceptual history provides a lens to analyze how fascism functions not only as an analytical category but also …
Traveling Concepts
In 2023, Margrit Pernau stepped down as editor of Contributions to the History of Concepts. She first took up the position as editor in 2009, and, with her fifteen years on the editorial team, she has been by far our longest serving editor. Over the years, Margrit Pernau has played an invaluable role for the journal and for international conceptual history. I guess it would be correct to say that she was born international. She followed her famil…
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