Moved by the Past : : Discontinuity and Historical Mutation / / Eelco Runia.
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 wit...
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Runia, Eelco, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Moved by the Past : Discontinuity and Historical Mutation / Eelco Runia. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (264 p.) : 0 text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Burying the Dead, Creating the Past -- 2. "Forget about it" -- 3. Presence -- 4. Spots of time -- 5. Thirsting for Deeds -- 6. Into Cleanness leaping -- 7. Inventing the new from the old -- 8. Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure machine -- 9. Our own best Enemy -- Coda -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, Eelco Runia identifies two modes of being "moved by the past": regressive and revolutionary. In the regressive mode, the past may either overwhelm us-as in nostalgia-or provoke us to act out what we believe to be solidly dead. When we are moved by the past in a revolutionary sense, we may be said to embody history: we burn our bridges behind us and create accomplished facts we have no choice but to live up to. In the final thesis of Moved by the Past, humans energize their own evolution by habitually creating situations ("catastrophes" or sublime historical events) that put a premium on mutations. This book therefore illuminates how every now and then we chase ourselves away from what we were and force ourselves to become what we are. Proposing a simple yet radical change in perspective, Runia profoundly reorients how we think and theorize about history. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Historiography Philosophy. History Philosophy. HISTORY / Historiography. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231168205 https://doi.org/10.7312/runi16820 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231537575 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231537575/original |
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