Moved by the past discontinuity and historical mutation /

Runia, Eelco

Moved by the past discontinuity and historical mutation / [Texte imprimé] : Eelco Runia - New York : Columbia University Press, cop. 2014 - 1 vol. (XV-241 p.) ; 24 cm - European perspectives : a series in social thought and cultural criticism . - European perspectives : a series in social thought and cultural criticism (Columbia University Press, New York) .

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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

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History--Philosophy Historiography--Philosophy

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