Futures Past

by Koselleck, Reinhart; Tribe, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780262610681
• ISBN10: 026261068X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-08-15
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

With a new, interpretive introduction by the translator, this revised edition of Koselleck's most acclaimed work is once again available in English. Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: What kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity?

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. vii
Author's Preface	p. 1
On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History
Modernity and the Planes of Historicity	p. 9
Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process	p. 26
Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution	p. 43
Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution	p. 58
Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time
Begriffsgeschichte and Social History	p. 75
History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures	p. 93
Representation, Event, and Structure	p. 105
Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing	p. 115
Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical World	p. 128
Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience
The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts	p. 155
On the Disposability of History	p. 192
Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time during the Third Reich	p. 205
Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement	p. 222
"Space of Experience" and "Horizon of Expectation": Two Historical Categories	p. 255
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 313
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