The Modern Concept of Progress The Abandonment of Experience: With and Beyond Reinhart Koselleck
摘要
This article approaches the concept of progress through the methodological perspective of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte). Drawing on Koselleck’s dual interest in the methodological premises of conceptual history and the theory of the semantics of historical time that emerges from them, it first traces the shifts that characterize his engagement with the concept of progress. From the observation of the ways in which this concept came to impose itself, it then distils important insights into the philosophical and political orientation required for the study of modernity, understood, beyond Koselleck, as an age of concepts. Finally, it opens several lines of inquiry into the contemporary relevance of the Koselleckian concept of progress in relation to current challenges.