Author
Reinhart Koselleck
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
June 2004
Today's Price
£19.38
Save 35%
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Futures Past
Today's Price £19.38
Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Author
Reinhart Koselleck
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
June 2004
£19.38
Save 35%
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Futures Past
Today's Price £19.38
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.
Author
Reinhart Koselleck
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
June 2004
Weight
502g
Page Count
344
Dimensions
155 x 228 x 18 mm
ISBN
9780231127714
ISBN-10
0231127715
Eden Code
4565506
More Information
Author/Creator: Reinhart Koselleck
ISBN: 9780231127714
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: June 2004
Weight: 502g
Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 4565506