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Articles by Lucian Hölscher
by Berber Bevernage, Lynn Hunt, Claudia Verhoeven, Stefan Tanaka, Chris F G Lorenz, William Gallois, peter osborne, François HARTOG, Constantin Fasolt, Lucian Hölscher, and Jonathan L Gorman
Thirteen expert historians and philosophers address basic questions on historical time and on... more Thirteen expert historians and
philosophers address basic questions on
historical time and on the distinctions
between past, present and future. Their
contributions are organised around
four themes: the relation between time
and modernity; the issue of ruptures in
time and the influence of catastrophic
events such as revolutions and wars on
temporal distinctions; the philosophical
analysis of historical time and temporal
distinctions; and the construction of
time outside Europe through processes
of colonialism, imperialism, and
globalisation.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Berber Bevernage and Chris Lorenz: Breaking up Time –
Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future
1. Time and Modernity: Critical Approaches to Koselleck’s Legacy
Aleida Assmann: Transformations of the Modern Time Regime
Peter Fritzsche: The Ruins of Modernity
Peter Osborne: Global Modernity and the Contemporary: Two Categories of the Philosophy of Historical Time
2. Ruptures in Time: Revolutions and Wars
Sanja Perovic: Year 1 and Year 61 of the French Revolution: The Revolutionary Calendar and Auguste Comte
Claudia Verhoeven: Wormholes in Russian History: Events ‘Outside of Time’
François Hartog: The Modern Régime of Historicity in the Face of
Two World Wars
Lucian Hölscher: Mysteries of Historical Order: Ruptures, Simultaneity and the Relationship of the Past, the Present and the Future
3. Thinking about Time: Analytical Approaches
Jonathan Gorman: The Limits of Historiographical Choice in Temporal Distinctions
Constantin Fasolt: Breaking up Time – Escaping from Time: Self-Assertion and Knowledge of the Past
4. Time outside Europe: Imperialism, Colonialism and Globalisation
Lynn Hunt: Globalisation and Time
Stefan Tanaka: Unification of Time and the Fragmentation of Pasts in Meiji Japan
Axel Schneider: Temporal Hierarchies and Moral Leadership:
China’s Engagement with Modern Views of History
William Gallois: The War for Time in Early Colonial Algeria"
Evangelische Theologie, 2014
Die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland bereitet sich gegenwärtig in Form einer Lutherdekade auf d... more Die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland bereitet sich gegenwärtig in Form einer Lutherdekade auf die 500 Jahr-Feier der Reformation 2017 vor. Unter dem fragwürdigen Konzept einer „Spurensuche“ (so der Titel des Eröffnungskongresses) lädt sie seit 2008 dazu ein, das protestantische Gold aus dem Bergwerk der Geschichte zu bergen. Für die einen geht es dabei darum, die Bedeutung der Reformation der heutigen Generation wieder in Erin- nerung zu rufen: Diejenigen, die sich zu den Reformationskirchen halten, sollen sich dazu in Erinnerung an den reformatorischen Aufbruch vor 500 Jahren neu sammeln. Für die anderen gilt es, Fehldeutungen und falsche Vereinnahmungen der Reformation für heutige und gestrige Anliegen zurechtzurücken und so die Bedeutung der Reformation für die Gegenwart neu zu justieren. Der folgende Beitrag verfolgt eher das zweite Anliegen, will damit aber zugleich auch das erste in ein verändertes Licht rücken.
Evangelische Theologie, 2014
On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestan... more On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades: This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism’s aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a mere Protestant culture of remembrance.
Time on a Human Scale
This chapter’s exploration of preaching in Protestant Germany considers concepts of redemption th... more This chapter’s exploration of preaching in Protestant Germany considers concepts of redemption through the period of the First World War, locating these within Christian intellectual culture over a wider frame. While the sense of a present charged with redemptive potential is a long held feature of Christian temporality (if sometimes poorly understood), it was in the conceptual framework of historical time as developed in 18th and 19th century thought that Protestant pastoral theology found a new way of articulating this sense of the divine present. In the mid- to late-19th century, pastors of the pietist tradition felt the nearness of the Second Coming and foresaw its signs in many of the political upheavals of their day. Ultimately the time of God and the time of man were increasingly seen as separate, but this meant that by the turn of the 20th century, the sense of an imminent end to the world was receding: many saw the Last Day as a distant event. The First World War, however, ...
This is the contribution "Zur Einfuhrung: Das Ruhrgebiet als religiose Landschaft" of M... more This is the contribution "Zur Einfuhrung: Das Ruhrgebiet als religiose Landschaft" of MTS 26 (2001).
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Kulturwissenschaften, 2011
Revista Anthropos Huellas Del Conocimiento, 2009
History and Theory, Dec 1, 2014
This article argues for the analysis of temporal concepts such as “age,” “century,” and “epoch,” ... more This article argues for the analysis of temporal concepts such as “age,” “century,” and “epoch,” “past,” “present,” and “future,” formed during the Enlightenment, as an approach to the study of the history of modern historiography. Starting from the basic distinction of “empty” and “embodied” time in Leibniz's and Newton's dispute of 1715 about the philosophical nature of time, it traces the episteme of the eighteenth century using the metaphor of a “time garden” for describing some basic features of enlightened historiography. Finally, the paper discusses the consequences of the increasing employment of concepts of embodied time for the future development of the historical sciences.
Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg, 2001
by Berber Bevernage, Lynn Hunt, Claudia Verhoeven, Stefan Tanaka, Chris F G Lorenz, William Gallois, peter osborne, François HARTOG, Constantin Fasolt, Lucian Hölscher, and Jonathan L Gorman
Thirteen expert historians and philosophers address basic questions on historical time and on... more Thirteen expert historians and
philosophers address basic questions on
historical time and on the distinctions
between past, present and future. Their
contributions are organised around
four themes: the relation between time
and modernity; the issue of ruptures in
time and the influence of catastrophic
events such as revolutions and wars on
temporal distinctions; the philosophical
analysis of historical time and temporal
distinctions; and the construction of
time outside Europe through processes
of colonialism, imperialism, and
globalisation.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Berber Bevernage and Chris Lorenz: Breaking up Time –
Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future
1. Time and Modernity: Critical Approaches to Koselleck’s Legacy
Aleida Assmann: Transformations of the Modern Time Regime
Peter Fritzsche: The Ruins of Modernity
Peter Osborne: Global Modernity and the Contemporary: Two Categories of the Philosophy of Historical Time
2. Ruptures in Time: Revolutions and Wars
Sanja Perovic: Year 1 and Year 61 of the French Revolution: The Revolutionary Calendar and Auguste Comte
Claudia Verhoeven: Wormholes in Russian History: Events ‘Outside of Time’
François Hartog: The Modern Régime of Historicity in the Face of
Two World Wars
Lucian Hölscher: Mysteries of Historical Order: Ruptures, Simultaneity and the Relationship of the Past, the Present and the Future
3. Thinking about Time: Analytical Approaches
Jonathan Gorman: The Limits of Historiographical Choice in Temporal Distinctions
Constantin Fasolt: Breaking up Time – Escaping from Time: Self-Assertion and Knowledge of the Past
4. Time outside Europe: Imperialism, Colonialism and Globalisation
Lynn Hunt: Globalisation and Time
Stefan Tanaka: Unification of Time and the Fragmentation of Pasts in Meiji Japan
Axel Schneider: Temporal Hierarchies and Moral Leadership:
China’s Engagement with Modern Views of History
William Gallois: The War for Time in Early Colonial Algeria"
Evangelische Theologie, 2014
Die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland bereitet sich gegenwärtig in Form einer Lutherdekade auf d... more Die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland bereitet sich gegenwärtig in Form einer Lutherdekade auf die 500 Jahr-Feier der Reformation 2017 vor. Unter dem fragwürdigen Konzept einer „Spurensuche“ (so der Titel des Eröffnungskongresses) lädt sie seit 2008 dazu ein, das protestantische Gold aus dem Bergwerk der Geschichte zu bergen. Für die einen geht es dabei darum, die Bedeutung der Reformation der heutigen Generation wieder in Erin- nerung zu rufen: Diejenigen, die sich zu den Reformationskirchen halten, sollen sich dazu in Erinnerung an den reformatorischen Aufbruch vor 500 Jahren neu sammeln. Für die anderen gilt es, Fehldeutungen und falsche Vereinnahmungen der Reformation für heutige und gestrige Anliegen zurechtzurücken und so die Bedeutung der Reformation für die Gegenwart neu zu justieren. Der folgende Beitrag verfolgt eher das zweite Anliegen, will damit aber zugleich auch das erste in ein verändertes Licht rücken.
Evangelische Theologie, 2014
On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestan... more On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades: This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism’s aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a mere Protestant culture of remembrance.
Time on a Human Scale
This chapter’s exploration of preaching in Protestant Germany considers concepts of redemption th... more This chapter’s exploration of preaching in Protestant Germany considers concepts of redemption through the period of the First World War, locating these within Christian intellectual culture over a wider frame. While the sense of a present charged with redemptive potential is a long held feature of Christian temporality (if sometimes poorly understood), it was in the conceptual framework of historical time as developed in 18th and 19th century thought that Protestant pastoral theology found a new way of articulating this sense of the divine present. In the mid- to late-19th century, pastors of the pietist tradition felt the nearness of the Second Coming and foresaw its signs in many of the political upheavals of their day. Ultimately the time of God and the time of man were increasingly seen as separate, but this meant that by the turn of the 20th century, the sense of an imminent end to the world was receding: many saw the Last Day as a distant event. The First World War, however, ...
This is the contribution "Zur Einfuhrung: Das Ruhrgebiet als religiose Landschaft" of M... more This is the contribution "Zur Einfuhrung: Das Ruhrgebiet als religiose Landschaft" of MTS 26 (2001).
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Handbuch der Kulturwissenschaften, 2011
Revista Anthropos Huellas Del Conocimiento, 2009
History and Theory, Dec 1, 2014
This article argues for the analysis of temporal concepts such as “age,” “century,” and “epoch,” ... more This article argues for the analysis of temporal concepts such as “age,” “century,” and “epoch,” “past,” “present,” and “future,” formed during the Enlightenment, as an approach to the study of the history of modern historiography. Starting from the basic distinction of “empty” and “embodied” time in Leibniz's and Newton's dispute of 1715 about the philosophical nature of time, it traces the episteme of the eighteenth century using the metaphor of a “time garden” for describing some basic features of enlightened historiography. Finally, the paper discusses the consequences of the increasing employment of concepts of embodied time for the future development of the historical sciences.
Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg, 2001
Die Geschichte ist eine Art Gewebe, das sich aus einer großen Zahl mehr oder weniger dichter Verk... more Die Geschichte ist eine Art Gewebe, das sich aus einer großen Zahl mehr oder weniger dichter Verknüpfungen zusammensetzt. Die Knotenpunkte sind die historischen Ereignisse, die Fäden die Geschichtsbilder mit ihren temporalen Strukturen und Zeitordnungen, die wir als historisch arbeitende Menschen zwischen den Ereignissen herstellen und erkennen. Historisch zu denken ist nur eine Möglichkeit der Aneignung von und Orientierung in der Welt, wenn auch eine bislang immer noch außerordentlich erfolgreiche.
This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 character... more This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, iPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eBooks, 1980
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Evangelische Theologie, Apr 1, 2014
On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestan... more On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades: This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism’s aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a me...
German Studies Review, May 1, 2003
The "Datenatlas zur religiosen Geographie im Protestantischen Deutschland" presents sta... more The "Datenatlas zur religiosen Geographie im Protestantischen Deutschland" presents statistical material on church life in the German Protestant regional churches between 1850 and 1940. It analyzes data at the level of the local church districts, which was gathered annually. This data provides information in regard to attendance at the worship services and the Lord's Supper, participation in church elections, baptism, marriage and funeral rites, and the numbers of those joining and leaving the church.
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