Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to
distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author
argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture
separating past and present. Think of the radical rupture with
Europe's past that was effected by the French and the Industrial
Revolutions. Sublime Historical Experience investigates how the
notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges
existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge. These
experiences of rupture are paradoxical since they involve both the
separation of past and present and, at the same time, the effort to
overcome this separation in terms of historical knowledge. The
experience unites feelings of loss/pain with those of
love/satisfaction, and thus is in agreement with how sublime
experience is ordinarily defined. The experience is also
precognitive since it precedes (the possibility of) historical
knowledge. As such it is a challenge to traditional conceptions of
the relationship between experience and truth or language. It
compels us to disconnect the notions of experience and truth.
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