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Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous concept of time. Over the last few decades, there has been a shift towards a new, present-oriented regime or 'presentism', made up of multiple and percolating temporalities. Rethinking Historical Time engages with this change of paradigm, providing a timely overview of cutting-edge interdisciplinary approaches to this new temporal condition. Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier have brought together an international team of scholars working in history, anthropology, archaeology, geography, philosophy, literature and visual studies to rethink the epistemological consequences of presentism for the study of past and to discuss critically the traditional assumptions that underpin research on historical time. Beginning with an analysis of presentism, the contributors move on to explore in historical and critical terms the idea of multiple temporalities, before presenting a series of case studies on the variability of different forms of time in contemporary material culture.
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Rethinking Historical Time New Approaches to Presentism Edited by Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier
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Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Historical Time Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier
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Part 1 Presentism and New Temporalities 1 2 3 4
Out of Time? Some Critical Reflections on François Hartog’s Presentism Chris Lorenz Return to Chronology Helge Jordheim Coming to Terms with the Present: Exploring the Chrononormativity of Historical Time Victoria Fareld The Transformation of Historical Time: Processual and Evental Temporalities Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
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Part 2 Multiple Temporalities 5 6
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Revolutionary Presence: Historicism and the Temporal Politics of the Moment Hans Ruin Time Outside History: Politics and Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s Reimagined Temporalities Liisi Keedus Pictorial Tempo