Reinhart Koselleck’s Personal Sluices of Memory and Sediments of Experience

Authors

  • Andrzej Nowak Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0026-8288

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/KH.2023.130.SI.1.05

Keywords

Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), biography, theory of history, collective and individual memory, criticism of utopia

Abstract

The article analyses selected aspects of the biography of Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), a German historian and theoretician of history. In particular, it brings to the fore significant traces of the Second World War experiences of the author of Kritik und Krise. Further, it looks at their influence on Koselleck’s critical approach to the concept of collective memory and on the anti-utopian thrust of his historical theory.

Author Biography

Andrzej Nowak, Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Andrzej Nowak (PhD habil., born in 1960) – a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, and of the Work Group for the Comparative History of Empires at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Polish-Russian relations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the intellectual history of Central and Eastern Europe of the period. Contact: aw.nowak@uj.edu.pl.

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NOWAK, Andrzej. Reinhart Koselleck’s Personal Sluices of Memory and Sediments of Experience. Kwartalnik Historyczny. Online. 7 May 2024. Vol. 130, no. 7, pp. 139-161. [Accessed 27 December 2025]. DOI 10.12775/KH.2023.130.SI.1.05.

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