Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHarvard University Press, 28. maj 2004 - 268 sider In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. |
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... autobiographies , and the Christian reli- gions projected a messianic view of time . But something quite new develops around 1800 , in the decades around the French Revolution : the perception of the restless iteration of the new so ...
... autobiographical ones , flourished in the postrevolutionary period as contemporaries saw their lives re- flected in and shaped by history . Moreover , the disconnection between the past and the present made the past an object of intense ...
... autobiographical and commemorative genres . It is in this last chapter that the far - reaching effects of the his- torical worldview become clear . I argue that history became a mass medium : Europeans and European immigrants in North ...
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