ISBN:
9781474221078
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9781474221061
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 372 Seiten
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5 Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Europe's legacy in the modern world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Truper, Henning Historical Teleologies in the Modern World
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Trüper, Henning, 1977 - Historical Teleologies in the Modern World.
DDC:
901
Keywords:
History Philosophy
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Historiography Philosophy
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Teleology
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History, Modern 19th century
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History, Modern 20th century
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Intellectual life History 19th century
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Intellectual life History 20th century
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History Philosophy
;
Historiography Philosophy
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Teleology
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History, Modern 19th century
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History, Modern 20th century
;
Intellectual life History
;
19th century
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Intellectual life History
;
20th century
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Geschichte
;
Teleologie
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Eschatologie
;
Geschichtsdenken
;
Geschichtsphilosophie
Abstract:
"Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history--the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process--in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, philanthropism, revolutionary politics, European thought and practice in colonialism and empire, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history"--From publisher's website
Abstract:
"Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history--the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process--in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, philanthropism, revolutionary politics, European thought and practice in colonialism and empire, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history"--From publisher's website
Note:
I. Two genealogies of historical teleologyIntroduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project
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The politics of eschatology : a short reading of the long view
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II. Botched vanishing acts : on the difficulties of making teleology disappear ; The "vocation of man"/"Die Bestimmung des Menschen" : a teleological concept of the German Enlightenment and its aftermath in the nineteenth century
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Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology
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After Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology
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III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends ; Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe
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Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies
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A gift of providence : destiny as national history in colonial India
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IV. Teleology in the revolutionary polis ; The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America
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Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law
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Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx
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V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual ; Religious teleologies and violence in the United States : the case of John Brown
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"But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project
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Catching up to oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity
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VI. Historical futures without direction? ; Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought
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The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel
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