Inhalt Self-Concepts, Counter-Concepts, Asymmetrical Counter-Concepts: Some Aspects of a Multi- faceted Agenda Kay Junge | 9 Linguistic Semantics and Historical Semantics M. Lynne Murphy and Roberta Piazza | 51 Asymmetrical Concepts and Political Asymmetries: A Comparative Glance at 20th Century Democracies and Totalitarianisms from a Discursive Standpoint Kirill Postoutenko | 81 Three Takes on the Counter-Revolutionary: Studying Asymmetrical Political Concepts in the People‟s Republic of China Juha A. Vuori | 113 „ We are the Barbarians‟ : Thomas Hobbes, the American Savage and the Debate about British Antiquity Philip Manow | 139 On Histories, Revolutions, and the Masses: Visions of Asymmetry and Symmetry in German Social Sciences Jan Marco Sawilla | 163 From Asymmetries to Concepts Kirill Postoutenko | 195 Authors | 251