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The case for presentism. Georges Sorel (1847-1922), Charles Péguy (1873-1914) and their legacy.
Code
01D37314
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Historical theory and methodology
    • History
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
  • Social sciences
    • General psychology
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Communication sciences
Keywords
regimes of historicity politics of time History
 
Project description
 

This project examines a metahistorical tradition within the framework of “politics of time” and “regimes of historicity.” Against the current of modern thought on history, this tradition (Sorel, Péguy, Daniel Halévy, Benedetto Croce and Walter Benjamin) makes a case against historical distance and for presentist modes of historical engagement.