Futures past : on the semantics of historical time / Reinhart Koselleck ; translated and with an introduction by Keith Tribe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koselleck, Reinhart.

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Standardized Title:

Vergangene Zukunft. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

History--Periodization.

History--Terminology.

Historiography.

Genre:

Terminology.

Electronic books.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 317 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Koselleck 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.

Contents:

Part I On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History

1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity 9

2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process 26

3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution 43

4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution 58

Part II Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time

5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History 75

6. History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures 93

7. Representation, Event, and Structure 105

8. Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing 115

9. Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical World 128

Part III Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience

10. The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts 155

11. On the Disposability of History 192

12. Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time during the Third Reich 205

13. Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement 222

14. "Space of Experience" and "Horizon of Expectation": Two Historical Categories 255.

Notes:

Originally published in English: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1985. In series: Studies in contemporary German social thought. With new introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-311) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

213305875

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