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Parallel Play

I’m in the weeds of end-of-the-semester grading at the moment, so this will be a short post. Jonathan Catlin has a fascinating post up on the Journal of the History of Ideas’ JHIBlog about the German historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006). Catlin’s piece is a review of a three-part exhibit entitled “Reinhart Koselleck and Das Bild” (Reinhart Koselleck and the Image), which took place in Bielefeld, Germany, earlier this year. Catlin’s account is fascinating; it was all I could do to put off following the copious links in the post (like I said, grading is my focus at the moment). Koselleck Read more