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Concepts of Culture
New Directions in Conceptual History
Edited by Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin
276 pages, 8 figs, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-83695-563-4 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (September 2026)
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Description
Concepts of Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history, broadening the scope of Reinhart Koselleck’s original undertaking through a series of experimental case studies in “applied conceptual history.” Drawing on contributors from art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German studies, and history, the book o ers theoretically grounded applications of conceptual history to cultural concepts, demonstrating both the plasticity and the urgency of the conceptual historical project today.
Mattias Pirholt is a professor of Literature at Uppsala University (Sweden). He has written extensively on Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz, and the German Romantics. His book publications include Metamimesis: Imitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism (2012), Grenzerfahrungen: Studien zu Goethes Ästhetik (Winter, 2018), Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe (co-ed. with Camilla Flodin and Gerad Gentry, 2024), and Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture (co-ed. with Thorsten Carstensen, 2025).
Michael Lipkin is the Academic Director and Senior Instructional Professor of the Program for Public Thinking at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on the longue durée of realism in Germany, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, in publications such as the German Studies Review, the Colloquia Germanica, and the Gottfried Kellers Moderne project. His writing on culture and politics has appeared in American and European publications, such as The Baffler, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Merkur. His translation of Walter Kempowski's An Ordinary Youth (Tadellöser & Wolff) was published with New York Review of Books Classics and Granta in 2023.
