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 have pro...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic
2015
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| Colección: | Europe's legacy in the modern world
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Two genealogies of historical teleology
- Introduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project / Henning Trüper with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- 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
- Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology / Marianne Sommer
- Against Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology / Angus Nicholls
- III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends
- Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe / Henning Trüper
- Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies / Siddharth Satpathy
- 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
- Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law / Martti Koskenniemi
- Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx / Etienne Balibar
- V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual
- Religious teleologies, modernity and violence : the case of John Brown / Carola Dietze
- "But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project / Gabriel Piterberg
- Catching up with oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity / Faisal Devji
- VI. Historical futures without direction?
- Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought / Peter Wagner
- The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel / Bo Stråth.
