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Moved by the past : discontinuity and historical mutation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Runia, Eelco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:European perspectives.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
Historiography > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Burying the dead, creating the past
  • "Forget about it"
  • Presence
  • Spots of time
  • Thirsting for deeds: Schiller and the historical sublime
  • Into cleanness leaping: the vertiginous urge to commit history
  • Inventing the new from the old
  • Crossing the wires in the pleasure machine
  • Our own best enemy: how humans energize their evolution.