Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Synopsis

Sediments Of Time -- Fiction And Historical Reality -- Space And History -- Historik And Hermeneutics -- Goethe's Untimely History -- Does History Accelerate? -- Constancy And Change Of All Contemporary Histories -- History, Law, And Justice -- Linguistic Change And The History Of Events -- Structures Of Repetition In Language And History -- On The Meaning And Absurdity In History -- Concepts Of The Enemy -- Sluices Of Memory And Sediments Of Experiences -- Behind The Deadly Line : The Age Of Totality -- Forms And Traditions Of Negative Memory -- Histories In The Plural And The Theory Of History : An Interview With Carsten Dutt. Reinhart Koselleck ; Translated And Edited By Sean Franzel And Stefan-ludwig Hoffmann. Translated From The German. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.