Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, 1990
Series: Book 63 of 69 - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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- Title
- Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
- Author
- Koselleck, Reinhart
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 026261068X
- ISBN 13
- 9780262610681
- Item weight
- 581 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.24 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 2.06 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 63 of 69: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
In these fifteen essays, one Of Germany's most distinguished philosophers of history invokes an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts to explore the concept of historical time. The witnesses include politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets, and the texts range from Renaissance paintings to the dreams of German citizens in the 1930s. Using these remarkable materials, Koselleck investigates the relationship of history to language, and of language to the deeper movements of human understanding.
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