History in Financial Times

Amin Samman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2019
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0890-0 (ISBN)

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Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique.

Amin Samman is a Lecturer in International Politics at City, University of London.

Introduction: "We Live in Financial Times"

1. Crisis Thinking

2. Historical Imagination

3. Return and Recurrence

4. Repetition and Revelation

5. Names of History

Afterword: Exits to the Future

Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5036-0890-5 / 1503608905
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0890-0 / 9781503608900
Zustand	Neuware