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Regimes of Historicity - Presentism and Experiences of Time (Paperback)
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Regimes of Historicity - Presentism and Experiences of Time (Paperback)
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's
"regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past,
present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck,
and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,
positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical
consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the
anthropologist Marshall Sahlins's concept of "heroic history." He
tracks changing perspectives on time in Chateaubriand's Historical
Essay and Travels in America and sets them alongside other writings
from the French Revolution. He revisits the insights of the French
Annales School and situates Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory within a
history of heritage and today's presentism, from which he addresses
Jonas's notion of our responsibility for the future. Our presentist
present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced
very differently depending on the position we occupy in society. We
are caught up in global movement and accelerated flows, or else
condemned to the life of casual workers, living from hand to mouth
in a stagnant present, with no recognized past, and no real future
either (since the temporality of plans and projects is
inaccessible). The present is therefore experienced as emancipation
or enclosure, and the perspective of the future is no longer
reassuring, since it is perceived not as a promise, but as a
threat. Hartog's resonant readings show us how the motor of
history(-writing) has stalled and help us understand the
contradictory qualities of our contemporary presentist relation to
time.
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