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Book Zukunft als Geschichte

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  • Author : Imanuel Geiss
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9783515072236
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Zukunft als Geschichte written by Imanuel Geiss and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nach Ansicht Adenauers haben die meisten, speziell die (west)deutschen, Historiker in der Einschatzung der Zukunftsaussichten der Sowjetunion versagt und die Unausweichlichkeit von deren Zusammenbruch (der 1989/91 dann ja auch eintrat) verkannt. Nur wenige Historiker machten in dieser Hinsicht eine Ausnahme - und wurden nicht ernstgenommen. Daher erscheint eine nachtragliche Wieder- bzw. Erstveroffentlichung einschlagiger Beitrage sinnvoll. Ohne Anspruch auf grundsatzliche Bewaltigung aller schwierigen theoretischen Fragen, die Zukunft als Geschichte aufwirft, beschrankten sich die Vorbemerkungen auf einige Aspekte, die fur eigene Prognosen als Teil historischer Arbeiten nutzlich bis unerlasslich erschienen. "Diese ruckblickenden Erlauterungen und eine damit eng verbundene Lesart des Buches als eine Geschichte der eigenen Geschichtsschreibung machen den Reiz des Werkes aus. Der Band gewahrt Einblicke in die innere Entwicklung, das historische Lernen des Autors selbst." Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft

Book The Psychology of Thinking about the Future

Download or read book The Psychology of Thinking about the Future written by Gabriele Oettingen and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people spend so much time thinking about the future, imagining scenarios that may never occur, and making (often unrealistic) predictions? This volume brings together leading researchers from multiple psychological subdisciplines to explore the central role of future-thinking in human behavior across the lifespan. It presents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms involved in visualizing, predicting, and planning for the future. Implications are explored for such important domains as well-being and mental health, academic and job performance, ethical decision making, and financial behavior. Throughout, chapters highlight effective self-regulation strategies that help people pursue and realize their short- and long-term goals.

Book Futures Past

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  • Author : Reinhart Koselleck
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2004-06-16
  • ISBN : 0231502044
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Futures Past written by Reinhart Koselleck and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.

Book The Many Faces of Germany

Download or read book The Many Faces of Germany written by John A. McCarthy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.

Book Bildungs  konomie  eine Zwischenbilanz

Download or read book Bildungs konomie eine Zwischenbilanz written by Charles Arnold Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Die Welt von morgen

Download or read book Die Welt von morgen written by Jacques Attali and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geschichte erz  hlen  Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit im Mittelalter

Download or read book Geschichte erz hlen Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit im Mittelalter written by Sarah Bowden and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen auf eine internationale Tagung zurück, die 2017 in Manchester stattgefunden hat. Sie untersuchen die Darstellung von Geschichte in der mittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur auf der Basis von aktuellen erzähltheoretischen Forschungsansätzen. Dabei wird ein breites Spektrum an Texten, Gattungen und Diskursen in den Blick genommen; als Angelpunkt für zahlreiche relevante Fragestellungen erweist sich die im 12. Jahrhundert entstandene ›Kaiserchronik‹. Geleitet von der Erkenntnis, dass Vergangenheit erst im Erzählen zu Geschichte wird, analysieren die Beiträge einschlägige narrative Strategien.

Book Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Download or read book Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible written by Shemaryahu Talmon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies assembled in this volume focus on two issues: firstly, the analysis and illustration of literary techniques employed by authors and compilers of the books of the Hebrew bible. In several instances, their development is followed into the early post-biblical Qumran writings and Apocrypha. Thus, the essays in this section relate to biblical literature qua literature, an issue which has especially attracted scholars in the field of recent times. In a second group of essays, the author sets out to probe the interconnection of literature and society in biblical Israel. Literary patterns, foremost motifs, are analyzed in the attempt to extract from them facets of underlying conceptual or speculative thought. Since biblical authors refrained, on the whole, from presenting systematically their world of ideas, the proposed evaluation of literary patterns may help in better gauging the conceptual universe of Israel in the biblical period

Book Reading Mark s Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory

Download or read book Reading Mark s Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory written by Sandra Huebenthal and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Gospel of Mark come to exist? And how was the memory of Jesus shaped by the experiences of the earliest Christians? For centuries, biblical scholars examined texts as history, literature, theology, or even as story. Curiously absent, however, has been attention to processes of collective memory in the creation of biblical texts. Drawing on modern explorations of social memory, Sandra Huebenthal presents a model for reading biblical texts as collective memories. She demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a text evolving from collective narrative memory based on recollections of Jesus’s life and teachings. Huebenthal investigates the principles and structures of how groups remember and how their memory is structured and presented. In the case of Mark’s Gospel, this includes examining which image of Jesus, as well as which authorial self-image, this text as memory constructs. Reading Mark’s Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory serves less as a key to unlock questions about the historical Jesus and more as an examination of memory about him within a particular community, providing a new and important framework for interpreting the earliest canonical gospel in context.

Book Work in a Modern Society

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  • Author : Jürgen Kocka
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 1845457978
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Work in a Modern Society written by Jürgen Kocka and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.

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  • Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book written by and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei

Download or read book Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei written by Seth Rockman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Januar Lecture von re:work, dem IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive, ist ein öffentlicher Festvortrag, der im Anschluss in einer kleinen Buchreihe des Kollegs auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wird. Am Ende der Laufzeit von re:work werden somit sechs Bücher aus verschiedenen einschlägigen und intensiv diskutierten Themenfeldern aus der re:work Arbeit repräsentiert. Ihre Funktion ist zum einen eine Dokumentation der Arbeit. Zum anderen sollen aber wichtige Fragestellungen in die Universität und deutsche Forschungslandschaft getragen werden. Insbesondere Studierende können davon profitieren. Langfristig sollen re:work-Themen stärker in den normalen Curricula der Lehre Eingang finden. Diese Buchreihe soll ein Anfang sein.

Book Die Entdeckung der Zukunft

Download or read book Die Entdeckung der Zukunft written by Lucian Hölscher and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian Hölscher verfolgt die Geschichte der Zukunft in Europa von ihrer Entdeckung in der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart. Auch die Zukunft hat ihre Geschichte: Gewandelt haben sich im Laufe der Zeit nicht nur die konkreten Zukunftsvorstellungen vergangener Gesellschaften, sondern auch die Zukunft als Dimension gesellschaftlicher Selbstorganisation überhaupt. In einer aktualisierten und deutlich erweiterten Neuauflage seines 1999 erschienen Standardwerkes verfolgt Lucian Hölscher die Geschichte der Zukunft in Europa von ihrer Entdeckung in der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart. Er zeigt, wie der vorausschauende Blick der Menschen seit mehr als 300 Jahren in zyklischen Konjunkturen immer weitere Zukunftsräume erobert und damit unser Leben in der Gegenwart grundlegend auf die Zukunft hin ausgerichtet hat.

Book Geschichte

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  • Author : Waldemar Besson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Geschichte written by Waldemar Besson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bible and Canon

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  • Author : Luc Zaman
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-05-31
  • ISBN : 9047433548
  • Pages : 730 pages

Download or read book Bible and Canon written by Luc Zaman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several decades ago canonical criticism came to dominate the study of the canon and even indeed all of biblical studies by its emphasis on the biblical canon's dogmatic content. An investigation of this canonical criticism brings its weak points to light: most notably the insufficient attention that is given to the canon's historical development. This new historical study begins with the earliest stages of the process of forming the canon rather than its final stages as most studies do. It shows how the canon, in essence, was already formed in the early stages of its historical development. It is essentially, synchronically, an authoritative unification of a range of traditions within the faith community, and diachronically, the guide that draws the dynamics of these traditions beyond their discontinuities to produce a continuity.

Book Hidden in Historicism

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  • Author : Harry Jansen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-06-10
  • ISBN : 1000090795
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Hidden in Historicism written by Harry Jansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in Historicism considers how the nineteenth-century philosophy of historicism depicts three "forgotten time regimes": a time of rise and fall, an ambiguous time of synchronicity of the non-synchronous, and a time in which decisive moments dominate. Before the eighteenth century, time was past-oriented. This inversed in the Enlightenment, when the future became dominating. Today, this time of progress continues to be embraced as a "time of the modern". Yet, inequality, increasing violence and climate change lead to doubts over a bright future. In this book, Harry Jansen moves away from the heritage of Reinhart Koselleck and his single time of the modern towards a historicist, threefold temporal approach to history writing. In the time regime of the twenty-first century past, present and future coexist. It is a heterogeneous time that takes on the three forms of historicism. Jansen’s study shows how all three times exist together in current historiography and contribute to a better understanding of the world today. Based on the idea that an incarnated time rules everything that happens it reality, the book offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing discussion about time and time regimes in contemporary philosophy and theory of history for students and scholars, both time specialists and the non-specialist.

Book Out of the Darkness

Download or read book Out of the Darkness written by Frank Trentmann and published by Signal. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Telegraph’s 50 Best Books of 2023 A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation. In 1945, Germany lay ruined. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure in 2021, Germany looked like the moral voice of Europe, welcoming over one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. At the same time, its rigid fiscal discipline and energy deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin have cast a shadow over the present. Innumerable scholars have asked how Germany could have degenerated from a nation of scientists, poets, and philosophers into one responsible for genocide. And yet, until now, a similarly vital question has been ignored. That is, how did a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvent themselves? Trentmann tells this dramatic story from the middle of the Second World War, through the Cold War and the division of East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany’s struggle to find its place in the world today. This journey includes a series of internal, moral conflicts: admissions of guilt and shame vying with immediate economic concerns, restitution for some but not others, tolerance versus racism, compassion versus complicity. Through a range of voices—German soldiers and German Jews; displaced persons in limbo; East German women and shopkeepers angry about energy shortages; opponents and supporters of nuclear power; volunteers helping migrants and refugees, and right-wing populists attacking them—Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait of the German people over eighty years, showing how they became who they are today.