{"id":14077,"date":"2022-11-18T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=publikation&#038;p=14077"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:30:12","slug":"histories-of-the-unsayable-reinhart-kosellecks-aesthetic-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/publikation\/histories-of-the-unsayable-reinhart-kosellecks-aesthetic-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Histories of the Unsayable: Reinhart Koselleck\u2019s Aesthetic Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This essay reviews\u00a0<em>Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories<\/em>\u00a0(2019), a collection of essays by the German historian and theorist of history Reinhart Koselleck (1923\u20132006), edited by Sean Franzel and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. Written during the last three decades of Koselleck\u2019s life and drawn from three German-language books of essays that came out in the new millennium,\u00a0<em>Sediments of Time<\/em>\u00a0introduces English-language readers to Koselleck\u2019s historical anthropology\u2014a central dimension of his oeuvre so far largely unavailable in translation. This essay argues that Koselleck\u2019s historical anthropology is always also an aesthetic anthropology, which helps explain Koselleck\u2019s recurring engagement with literary writers such as Shakespeare, Kleist, and Melville. At the core of Koselleck\u2019s work lies an argument about the mutual interdependence of history and fiction. Herein resides Koselleck\u2019s provocation for literary studies: if, for the historian, fiction provides insights into historical experience in condensed form, the reverse of this claim may engage literary scholars; for them, Koselleck suggests, the extraliterary, extralinguistic realm of historical experience is of crucial importance as a necessary condition for fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voelz, Johannes (2022): Histories of the Unsayable: Reinhart Koselleck\u2019s Aesthetic Anthropology. In: American Literary History, 34 (2), S. 1456\u20131476.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14078,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"publikation_cat":[98],"disciplines":[447],"series":[],"class_list":["post-14077","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikation_cat-zeitschriftenartikel","disciplines-literaturwissenschaft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/14077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikation_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation_cat?post=14077"},{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14077"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}