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History in Times of Unprecedented Change - A Theory for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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History in Times of Unprecedented Change - A Theory for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has
drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging
historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a
coherent theory of history. In this book, Zoltan Simon argues that
instead of seeing the past, the present and the future together on
a temporal continuum as history, we now expect unprecedented change
to happen in the future (in visions of the future of technology,
ecology and nuclear warfare) and we look at the past by assuming
that such changes have already happened. This radical theory of
history challenges narrative conceptualizations of history which
assume a past potential of humanity unfolding over time to reach
future fulfillment and seeks new ways of conceptualizing the
altered socio-cultural concerns Western societies are currently
facing. By creating a novel set of concepts to make sense of our
altered historical condition regarding both history understood as
the course of human affairs and historical writing, History in
Times of Unprecedented Change offers a highly original and engaging
take on the state of history and historical theory in the present
and beyond.
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