Ebook: Sediments of time: on possible histories

Sediments of time -- Fiction and historical reality -- Space and history -- Historik and hermeneutics -- Goethe's untimely history -- Does history accelerate? -- Constancy and change of all contemporary histories : conceptual-historical notes -- History, law, and justice -- Linguistic change and the history of events -- Structures of repetition in language and history -- On the meaning and absurdity of history -- Concepts of the enemy -- Sluices of memory and sediments of experience : the influence of the two world wars on social consciousness -- Behind the deadly line : the age of totality -- Forms and traditions of negative memory -- Histories in the plural and the theory of history : an interview with Carsten Dutt.;This new collection of previously untranslated essays by renowned German conceptual historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck provides new insight into his theory of history, an ambitious attempt to unearth the conditions of all possible histories.