Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time

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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Author's Preface -- Part I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History -- 1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process -- 3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution -- 4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution -- Part II: Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time -- 5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History.;With a new, interpretive introduction by the translator, this revised edition of Koselleck's most acclaimed work is once again available in English. Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: What kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Author's Preface -- Part I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History -- 1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process -- 3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution -- 4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution -- Part II: Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time -- 5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History. 13. Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of Modern Concepts of Movement -- 14. "Space of Experience" and "Horizon of Expectation": Two Historical Categories -- Notes -- Index. 6. History, Histories, and Formal Time Structures -- 7. Representation, Event, and Structure -- 8. Chance as Motivational Trace in Historical Writing -- 9. Perspective and Temporality: A Contribution to the Historiographical Exposure of the Historical World -- Part III: Semantic Remarks on the Mutation of Historical Experience -- 10. The Historical-Political Semantics of Asymmetric Counterconcepts -- 11. On the Disposability of History -- 12. Terror and Dream: Methodological Remarks on the Experience of Time during the Third Reich.