Historical teleologies in the modern world
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Historical teleologies in the modern world
(Europe's legacy in the modern world)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
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Description
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process - in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism, the political thought and practice of revolution, emancipation, imperialism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general.
By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history.
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Preface
I. Two Genealogies of Historical Teleology
1. Introduction: Teleology and History: Nineteenth-Century Fortunes of an Enlightenment Project
Henning Truper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
2. The Politics of Eschatology: A Short Reading of the Long View
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
II. Botched Vanishing Acts: On the Difficulties of Making Teleology Disappear
3. The 'Vocation of Man' - 'Die Bestimmung des Menschen': A Teleological Concept of the German Enlightenment and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth Century
Philip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany)
4. Earth History and the Order of Society: William Buckland, the French Connection, and the Conundrum of Teleology
Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
5. After Darwin: Teleology in German Philosophical Anthropology
Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK)
III. Befriending Teleology: Writings Histories with Ends
6. Save Their Souls: Historical Teleology Goes to Sea in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Henning Truper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France)
7. Reading History in Colonial India: Three Nineteenth-Century Narratives and their Teleologies
Siddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India)
8. A Gift of Providence: Destiny as National History in Colonial India
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA)
IV. Teleology in the Revolutionary Polis
9. The 'Democracy of Blood': The Colours of Racial Fusion in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Francisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
10. Between Context and Telos: Reviewing the Structures of International Law
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
11. Marxism and the Idea of Revolution: The Messianic Moment in Marx
Etienne Balibar (Universite Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA)
V. Translating Futures: Eschatology, History and the Individual
12. Religious Teleologies and Violence in the United States: The Case of John Brown
Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany)
13. 'But Was I Really Primed?' Gershom Scholem's Zionist Project
Gabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
14. Catching Up to Oneself: Islam and the Representation of Humanity
Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK)
VI. Historical Futures without Direction?
15. Autonomy in History: Teleology in Nineteenth-Century European Social and Political Thought
Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
16. The Faces of Modernity: Crisis, Kairos, Chronos - Koselleck versus Hegel
Bo Strath (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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