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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... the Enlightenment thinkers , invested as they were in the idea of civilization and re- finement . By contrast , modern history created a huge stage , en- rolled more and more people in its dramas , and 6 Stranded in the Present.
... ideas about irreparable loss and the eruption of new time . But the scale of events in Europe during the French Revolution , the restless mobilization of new ideas , and the definitive illegitimacy of nonhistorical notions of time ...
... idea of contemporaneity , the historical worldview facilitated emphatic exchange and pro- moted the idea of cultural difference and thus repeatedly returned to the possibility of political change . In my view , history is the only ...
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