Ebook: Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Author's Preface -- Part I: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History -- 1. Modernity and the Planes of Historicity -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Dissolution of the Topos into the Perspective of a Modernized Historical Process -- 3. Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution -- 4. Historical Prognosis in Lorenz von Stein's Essay on the Prussian Constitution -- Part II: Theory and Method of the Historical Determination of Time -- 5. Begriffsgeschichte and Social History.;With a new, interpretive introduction by the translator, this revised edition of Koselleck's most acclaimed work is once again available in English. Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: What kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Koselleck explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity?