with the collaboration of Mark Dang-Anh, Alexander Friedrich, Rüdiger Graf, and Stefan Scholl
Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen
Lexikon zur historischen Semantik in Deutschland
[The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany]
The articles are continually published in open access in the Schwabe Verlag’s e-library. Following the project’s conclusion, the dictionary will be available in five printed volumes.
In terms of the history of concepts, the 20th century is yet to be surveyed. This is what the dictionary The 20th Century in Basic Concepts, a joint project lead by the ZfL in Berlin in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), aims to accomplish. In 150 keywords, the dictionary explores 20th century historical semantics in Germany characterized by asynchronicities, accelerated attrition, conceptual innovations, and terminological revolutions. As an interdisciplinary research endeavor, the dictionary does not only record secured knowledge. Instead, it provides a significant contribution to basic research in the humanities, cultural, social, and historical sciences. It explores exchange processes between scientific, political, literary-aesthetic, and everyday language—the entire variety of the generation, circulation and changing meanings of concepts. Here, the dictionary combines hermeneutic practices with digital methods that enable us to include very large text corpora that can then be systematically analyzed for concept-historical purposes.
Published articles
- Einleitung
Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, Falko Schmieder - Alltag
Moritz Neuffer - Aufklärung/Gegenaufklärung
Ernst Müller - Ausnahmezustand/Notstand
Stefanie Middendorf - Demokratie
Stefan Scholl - Dritte Welt
Benjamin Möckel - Energie
Rüdiger Graf - Europa
Kiran Klaus Patel - Familie
Christopher Neumaier - Forschung
Désirée Schauz - Globalisierung, Welt
David Kuchenbuch - Grenze
Falko Schmieder - Innovation, Neuerung
Susanna Weber - Intellektuelle
Gangolf Hübinger - Klima
Matthias Heymann, Katja Gorbahn - Kreativität
Morten Bierganns - Netz, Netzwerk, Vernetzung
Alexander Friedrich - Ökologie
Florian Sprenger, Christina Wessely - Sicherheit
Achim Saupe - Westen, Abendland
Jasper M. Trautsch
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Bücher im Gespräch Episode 21: Begriffsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts For our podcast, Falko Schmieder talked to Georg Toepfer about the dictionary. (in German) |
