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Hidden in Historicism: Time Regimes since 1700 book cover

1st Edition

Hidden in Historicism Time Regimes since 1700

By Harry Jansen Copyright 2020
270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge
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Hidden in Historicism considers how the nineteenth-century philosophy of historicism depicts three "forgotten time regimes": a time of rise and fall, an ambiguous time of synchronicity of the non-synchronous, and a time in which decisive moments dominate. Before the eighteenth century, time was past-oriented. This inversed in the Enlightenment, when the future became dominating. Today, this... Read more

1 Introduction

Part 1: In Search of New Times

2 The Empty Time of the Enlightenment

3 The Incarnated Time of the Counter-Enlightenment

Part 2: The Romanticist Time of Politics

4 Hegel’s Time of the State

5 Ranke’s Undulating Time of Continuing Entities

Part 3: The Ambiguous Time of Societies

6 Tocqueville’s Time of an Aristocratic and Democratic Society

7 Marx’s Synchronicity of the Non-Synchronous

Part 4: The Kairotic Time of Cultures

8 Nietzsche’s Augenblick

9 Huizinga’s Time of the Historical Sensation

Part 5: The Time out of Joint 

10 Historicist Times in the 20th and 21st Century 1: France and the Anglo-Saxon World

11 Historicist Times in the 20th and 21st Century 2: The German Way

12 Epilogue: The Benefits of Historicist Times.

Biography

Until his retirement, Harry Jansen lectured philosophy of history at Radboud University Nijmegen.

"[A]n extraordinarily rich book … with interesting insights on almost every page. Above all, it is a very ambitious book in which [Harry Jansen] introduce[s] a surprising and completely new division in the Western time regimes since 1700."

Frank Ankersmit

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