History of Generation as History of Concept: A Plea for Historical Semantics

Abstract

The article deals with the question of the tension between the terms with which historians examine historical reality and the terms that are already part of this reality. The topic is not only terms of historicla sources, but also heuristic concepts that have arisen in the period of time that historians examine.

Keywords

• Generation, History of Concept
• Historical Semantics
• Czechoslovakia
• 1960s