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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRunia, Eelco
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMoved by the Past :
_bDiscontinuity and Historical Mutation /
_cEelco Runia.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.) :
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490 0 _aEuropean Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Burying the Dead, Creating the Past --
_t2. "Forget about it" --
_t3. Presence --
_t4. Spots of time --
_t5. Thirsting for Deeds --
_t6. Into Cleanness leaping --
_t7. Inventing the new from the old --
_t8. Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure machine --
_t9. Our own best Enemy --
_tCoda --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tBackmatter
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHistorians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, Eelco Runia identifies two modes of being "moved by the past": regressive and revolutionary. In the regressive mode, the past may either overwhelm us-as in nostalgia-or provoke us to act out what we believe to be solidly dead. When we are moved by the past in a revolutionary sense, we may be said to embody history: we burn our bridges behind us and create accomplished facts we have no choice but to live up to. In the final thesis of Moved by the Past, humans energize their own evolution by habitually creating situations ("catastrophes" or sublime historical events) that put a premium on mutations. This book therefore illuminates how every now and then we chase ourselves away from what we were and force ourselves to become what we are. Proposing a simple yet radical change in perspective, Runia profoundly reorients how we think and theorize about history.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aHistoriography
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aHistory
_xPhilosophy.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Historiography.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/runi16820
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