History in Times of Unprecedented Change

History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781350095076
ISBN-13 : 1350095079
Rating : 4/5 (079 Downloads)

Book Synopsis History in Times of Unprecedented Change by : Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

Download or read book History in Times of Unprecedented Change written by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Zoltán 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.


History in Times of Unprecedented Change Related Books

History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-13 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not be
History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-13 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not be
Rethinking Historical Time
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Marek Tamm
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous
Historical Understanding
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-24 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 al
Global Crisis
Language: en
Pages: 944
Authors: Geoffrey Parker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-15 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famine