This book examines canonical philosophies of history, memory, and identity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude and the temporalities of trauma. Engaging texts spanning multiple genres and several centuries - from John Locke to Maurice Blanchot, from Hegel to Benj…
Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In exa…
This title examines canonical philosophies of history, memory and identity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude and the temporalities of trauma. Engaging texts spanning multiple genres and several centuries - from John Locke to Maurice Blanchot, from Hegel to Benj…
Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In exa…
"Is, as Hamlet once feared, the time out of joint? What has happened to our relation to the past and the future? The past has returned in various shapes: as nostalgia, as traumatic impact, and as historical origin or key event for the purposes of nation building. The future, mea…
"Is, as Hamlet once feared, the time out of joint? What has happened to our relation to the past and the future? The past has returned in various shapes: as nostalgia, as traumatic impact, and as historical origin or key event for the purposes of nation building. The future, mea…
"Is, as Hamlet once feared, the time out of joint? What has happened to our relation to the past and the future? The past has returned in various shapes: as nostalgia, as traumatic impact, and as historical origin or key event for the purposes of nation building. The future, mea…