Historical Understanding (eBook, PDF)

Past, Present, and Future
Redaktion: Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár; Deile, Lars

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Produktbeschreibung

The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overwhelm us in all domains of life or is historical understanding in yet another crisis? The answers do not come easily. The recent demise of humanities education, the technological alterations of our social lifeworlds and the human condition, the anthropogenic changes in the Earth system, the growing sense of memory, trauma and historical injustice as alternative approaches to the past, seem to entail contradictions and complexities that do not fit very well with our existing notions of historical understanding. Historical thought as we know it is facing manifold challenges, and we struggle to grasp a larger picture that could encompass them.
Boasting a range of contributions from leading scholars, this volume attempts just that. In an innovative collection of short essays, Historical Understanding explores the current shape of historical understanding today, by surveying a variety of historical relations to the past, present, and future in the face of socio-political, ecological and technological upheavals.

This book is an invaluable research tool for students and researchers alike, presenting a kaleidoscope-like overview of manifold new ways which we navigate "historically" in coping with present-day challenges, both in wider society and in historiography

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350168626
• Artikelnr.: 63308559

Autorenporträt

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon is Research Fellow at Bielefeld University. He has been assistant professor at Leiden University and Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Zoltán's recent work explores the challenges posed by technology and the Anthropocene to the human condition and modern historical thinking. He has published in journals ranging from History and Theory to The Anthropocene Review, and he is the author of History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2019) and The Epochal Event: Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Words (2020). Lars Deile is Professor of Didactics and Theory of History at Bielefeld University. His work circles around intellectual and educational history, history didactics, history politics and theory of history. Currently he tries to bring such questions together in a theory of historical learning which is based on a phenomenological approach.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Historical Understanding Today
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
(Bielefeld University
Germany) Part I: The Historical Present Historicities 1. The Texture of the Present
François Hartog (EHESS
France) 2. Framing the Polychronic Present
Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University
Sweden) 3. Caught between Past and Future: On the Uses of Temporality for Political Exclusion
Moira Pérez (University of Buenos Aires
Argentina) 4. In Sync/Out of Sync
Helge Jordheim
(University of Oslo
Norway) 5. Favoring an Offensive Presentism
Lars Deile
(Bielefeld University
Germany) Histories 6. Infinite History
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
(Australian National University
Australia) 7. History of the Present: Or
Two Approaches to Causality and Contingency
Stefanos Geroulanos
(New York University
USA) 8. Theses on Theory and History WILD ON COLLECTIVE
Ethan Kleinberg
(Wesleyan University
USA) Joan Wallach Scott
(Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
USA)
Gary Wilder
(CUNY
USA) 9. Can Historians Be Replaced by Algorithms?
Jo Guldi
(Southern Methodist University
USA) Part II. History and the Future Historicities 10. Planetary Futures
Planetary History
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
(Bielefeld University
Germany) 11. Future-Oriented History
Marek Tamm
(Tallinn University
Estonia) 12. What Future for the Future? Utopian Lessons from a Global Pandemic
Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra
Portugal) Histories 13. The Future as a Domain of Historical Inquiry
David Staley
(Ohio State University
USA) 14. Periodization of the Future
Cornelius Holtorf
(Linnaeus University
Sweden) 15. History and Technology Futures: Where History and Technology Assessment Come Together
Silke Zimmer-Merkle
(Institute for Technology Karlsruhe
Germany) 16. Tomorrow is the Question: Modernity and the Need for Strong Narratives about the Future - and the Past
Franz-Josef Arlinghaus
(Bielefeld University
Germany) Part III: Relations to the Past Historicities 17. Probing the Limits of a Metaphor: On the Stratigraphic Model in History and Geology
Chris Lorenz
(Ruhr University Bochum
Germany) 18. Against the Historicist Tradition of Historical Understanding
Jörg van Norden
(Bielefeld University
Germany) 19. Historical Understanding and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict
Berber Bevernage
(Ghent University
Belgium)
Kate E. Temoney (Montclair State University
USA) 20. The Cross-Cultural Appeal of the 'Mirror' Metaphor-History as Practical Past
Q. Edward Wang (Rowan University
USA) Histories 21. Mouse-Eaten Records
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde
UK) 22. Lines of Sight: The Historical Certitude of Digital Reenactment
Vanessa Agnew
(University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany) 23. The DNA Archive
Jermoe de Groot (University of Manchester
UK) 24. Doing History and the Pre-Conceptual
Suman Gupta (The Open University
UK) Conclusion
Historical Understanding Today: Incidental Remarks
Lars Deilie (Bielefeld University
Germany)