{"title":"Circulation of Fundamental Concepts","authors":"Karolina Enquist Källgren","doi":"10.1086/715946","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the concept of generation is studied as a case of the circulation of fundamental concepts between sociology and various disciplines in the humanities. It is argued that this concept underwent a change in meaning as it was transferred into the newly established German discipline of sociology. This change was marked by an increasing spatialization of a concept hitherto mainly temporal in nature. Moving from art history into philosophy of history and then sociology, the concept came to signify a social structure of either experience or an objective structure with economic underpinnings. The article follows the concept through the works and discussions of mainly Wilhelm Pinder, Karl Mannheim, José Ortega y Gasset, and Ernst Bloch.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History of Humanities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715946","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article, the concept of generation is studied as a case of the circulation of fundamental concepts between sociology and various disciplines in the humanities. It is argued that this concept underwent a change in meaning as it was transferred into the newly established German discipline of sociology. This change was marked by an increasing spatialization of a concept hitherto mainly temporal in nature. Moving from art history into philosophy of history and then sociology, the concept came to signify a social structure of either experience or an objective structure with economic underpinnings. The article follows the concept through the works and discussions of mainly Wilhelm Pinder, Karl Mannheim, José Ortega y Gasset, and Ernst Bloch.