In this essay the reader will find a story of the modern concept of "history". Originally written and published as an entry for the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (Fundamental Historical Concepts), the monumental dictionary edited by Reinhart Koselleck himself with Otto Brunner and Werner Conze, the text is a magnificent exponent of the so-called "conceptual history" or "of concepts", a new genre emerging from the cross of the history of ideas with philosophy and political and social thought.
From the analysis of the specifically modern features of the concept of "history", the author follows his avatars through the relationship between history (Geschichte) and historical science (Historie), between "history" and "History". This Spanish edition in book form wants to recover an essential contribution within the discussion about the meaning of modernity.