Futures Past : On the Semantics of Historical Time

Name: Futures Past : On the Semantics of Historical Time
Brand: Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press

Futures PastOn the Semantics of Historical Time\nAuthor(s): Reinhart Koselleck, Keith Tribe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231127714, 978-0231127714\nSynopsis\nModernity 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 adv.