1st Edition
Historical Experience Essays on the Phenomenology of History
Introduction 1
PART 1
Historicity, narrative, and time 9
1 On historicity 11
2 Reflections on temporal perspective: the use and abuse of hindsight 24
3 The stories of our lives: aging and narrative 34
4 On being historical 46
PART 2
Teleology and history 59
5 Teleology and the experience of history 61
6 Husserl and Foucault on the historical a priori: teleological and anti-teleological views of history 75
7 Historical teleology: the grand illusion? 86
8 On the metaphilosophy of history 97
PART 3
Embodiment and experience 113
9 Intersubjectivity and embodiment 115
10 History as orientation: Rüsen on historical culture and narration 128
11 Erlebnis and history 144
12 Experience and history 153
Biography
David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University, US and Lecturer of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Phenomenology and the Problem of History (1974, reissued in 2009); Time, Narrative and History (1986); Interpreting Husserl (1987); The Paradox of Subjectivity (1999), and Experience and History (2014).
