Runia Moved by the Past

Discontinuity and Historical Mutation
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53757-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

A prominent Dutch historian upsets our linear conception of time and event and introduces a new way to envision history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Runia, Eelco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Burying the Dead, Creating the Past
2. "Forget About It"
3. Presence
4. Spots of Time
5. Thirsting for Deeds: Schiller and the Historical Sublime
6. Into Cleanness Leaping: The Vertiginous Urge to Commit History
7. Inventing the New from the Old
8. Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure Machine
9. Our Own Best Enemy: How Humans Energize Their Evolution
Coda
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read "Burying the Dead, Creating the Past," the first chapter to Moved by the Past:

Über Autor(innen)

Eelco Runia is a novelist and chair of the Centre for Metahistory at Groningen University in the Netherlands. His novels and essayistic work on the making and writing of history address the question of how and why humans habitually disrupt their lives by saddling themselves with accomplished facts of their own making.