Futures past : on the semantics of historical time
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Futures past : on the semantics of historical time
Columbia University Press, c2004
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Vergangene Zukunft : zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten
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Originally published in English: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1985. In series: Studies in contemporary German social thought. With new introd
Includes bibliographical references and index
Translation of: Vergangene Zukunft : zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten
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ISBN 9780231127707
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction, by Keith Tribe Part I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History Chapter 1 Modernity and the Planes of Historicity Chapter 2 Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process Chapter 3 Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution Chapter 4 Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Steinis Essay on the Prussian Constitution Part II Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time Chapter 5 Begriffsgeschichte and Social History Chapter 6 History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures Chapter 7 Representation, Event, and Structure Chapter 8 Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing Chapter 9 Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical World Part III Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience Chapter 10 The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts Chapter 11 On the Disposability of History Chapter 12 Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time during the Third Reich Third Reich Chapter 13 iNeuzeiti: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement Chapter 15 iSpace of Experiencei and iHorizon of Expectationi: Two Historical Categories Notes
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: pbk ISBN 9780231127714
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction, by Keith Tribe Part I. On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History 1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos Into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process 3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution 4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution Part II. Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time 5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History 6. History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures 7. Representation, Event, and Structure 8. Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing 9. Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical World Part III. Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience 10. The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts 11. On the Disposability of History 12. Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time During the Third Reich 13. Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement 15. Space of Experience and Horizon of Expectation: Two Historical Categories Notes
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