Historical teleologies in the modern world /

"Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history--the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process--in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Trüper, Henning, Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Colección:Europe's legacy in the modern world.
Temas:
1800-1999
History > Philosophy.
Historiography > Philosophy.
Teleology.
History, Modern > 19th century.
History, Modern > 20th century.
Intellectual life > History > 19th century.
Intellectual life > History > 20th century.
Finalité.
Histoire > 19e siècle.
Histoire > 20e siècle.
European history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
History.
HISTORY > General.
History, Modern.
Intellectual life.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Two genealogies of historical teleology
  • Introduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project / Henning Trüper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • The politics of eschatology : a short reading of the long view / Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • II. Botched vanishing acts : on the difficulties of making teleology disappear
  • The "vocation of man"/"Die Bestimmung des Menschen" : a teleological concept of the German Enlightenment and its aftermath in the nineteenth century / Philip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany)
  • Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology / Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
  • After Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology / Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK)
  • III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends
  • Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe / Henning Trüper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France)
  • Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies / Siddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India)
  • A gift of providence : destiny as national history in colonial India / Dipesh Chakrabarty
  • IV. Teleology in the revolutionary polis
  • The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America / Francisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  • Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law / Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx / Etienne balibar (Université Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA)
  • V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual
  • Religious teleologies and violence in the United States : the case of John Brown / Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany)
  • "But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project / Gabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Catching up to oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity / Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK)
  • VI. Historical futures without direction?
  • Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought / Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
  • The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel / Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland).

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