On the need for theory in the discipline of history -- Social history and conceptual history -- Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Transformations of experience and methodological change : a historical-anthropological essay -- The temporalization of utopia -- Time and history -- Concepts of historical time and social history -- The unknown future and the art of prognosis -- Remarks on the revolutionary calendar and Neue Zeit -- The eighteenth century as the beginning of modernity -- On the anthropological and semantic structure of Bildung -- Three bürgerliche worlds? : preliminary theoretical-historical remarks on the comparative semantics of civil society in Germany, England, and France -- "Progress" and "decline" : an appendix to the history of two concepts -- Some questions regarding the conceptual history of "crisis" -- The limits of emancipation : a conceptual-historical sketch -- Daumier and death -- War memorials : identity formations of the survivors -- Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of dreams