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Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
Reinhart Koselleck
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Paperback. Explores the shifting perceptions and conceptions of historical time that have emerged over the past two centuries. This book argues that the past and the future have become 'relocated' in relation to each other, and that 'history' has emerged as a kind of temporality with distinct characteristics and ways of assimilating experience. Translator(s): Tribe, Keith. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486. On the Semantics of Historical Time. 348 pages, Illustrations. Explores the shifting perceptions and conceptions of historical time that have emerged over the past two centuries. This book argues that the past and the future have become 'relocated' in relation to each other, and that 'history' has emerged as a kind of temporality with distinct characteristics and ways of assimilating experience. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBA; HP. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight: 472. Translator(s): Tribe, Keith.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231127714
SKU
V9780231127714
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About Reinhart Koselleck
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.
Reviews for Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
Koselleck turns the procedures of 'conceptual historiography' to the study of the concept of history itself, (providing) original, erudite, and illuminating insights into concepts that have informed the modern idea of historical being: event, chance, progress, revolution, modernity... Koselleck's work augurs a new era in the conceptualization not only of what 'history' means to Western culture but also of what ... Read more