Playing the Cerebral Savage
Notes on Writing German History before the Linguistic Turn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rudy Koshar (corresponding author), Rudy J Koshar |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 343-359 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938900020525 |
| OpenAlex | W2081648248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
I want to begin by suggesting that to speak of a linguistic turn in the writing of modern German history is premature. It may be true that intellectual history on both sides of the Atlantic has taken “the” linguistic turn, in the sense that, more than ever before, much current research involves “a focused concern on the ways meaning is constituted in and through language.” The formal properties, degree of sophistication, and utility for historians of these studies vary greatly. They encompass by now almost classical poststructuralist perspectives, methodologically more conservative discussions of cultural representation, and the influential works of Quentin Skinner and J.G.A. Pocock. Yet history writing on twentieth-century Germany, considered broadly, stands very much before rather than after a linguistic turn, if there will be a turn at all. Scholars of modern German cultural, social, or political history who engage current debates on language and rhetoric in truly innovative ways are the exception rather than the rule. Moreover, considerations of a linguistic turn in modern German history take place at a time when some historians criticize poststructuralist thought more forcefully than ever before.4 This makes for an interesting confluence of tensions, especially when one considers that disciplines such as literary criticism and anthropology have turned anew to the study of history
Art · Criticism · Cultural history · Cultural turn · Epistemology · German · Intellectual history · Linguistic turn · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Anthropology · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Philosophy
Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn
The Interpretation of Cultures
Futures Past
The Peculiarities of German History
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
The New Cultural History
The Social Language of Politics in Germany
Nationalism and Society
Interrupting the Conversation
Reactionary modernism
Philosophical investigations
Allegory, Myth and Symbol
Rethinking the Linguistic Turn
Central Problems in Social Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 1989 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |