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Moved by the past : discontinuity and historical mutation / Eelco Runia. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: European perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticismPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231537575
  • 0231537573
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D16.8 .895 2014
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Contents:
Table of Contents; 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.
Summary: Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents; 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.

Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history.

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