Futures Past (eBook)

On the Semantics of Historical Time

Reinhart Koselleck (Autor)

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2004
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-50204-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.

Autor

Reinhart Koselleck, now retired, was previously professor of historical theory at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is the author of The Practice of Conceptual History and Critique and Crisis.Keith Tribe was Reader in Economics at Keele University, UK, until 2002. He is now a private scholar and rowing coach at the King's School, Worcester.

Inhalt

Introduction, by Keith TribePart I. On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History 1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos Into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian ConstitutionPart II. Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time 5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History6. History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures7. Representation, Event, and Structure8. Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing9. Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical WorldPart III. Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience 10. The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts11. On the Disposability of History12. Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time During the Third Reich13. Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement15. Space of Experience and Horizon of Expectation: Two Historical CategoriesNotes

Produkt-Details

• Übersetzer: Keith Tribe
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-50204-4 / 0231502044
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-50204-7 / 9780231502047