Hidden in Historicism

<p><em>Hidden in Historicism</em> considers how the nineteenth-century philosophy of historicism depicts three forgotten time regimes: a time of rise and fall an ambiguous time of synchronicity of the non-synchronous and a time in which decisive moments dominate.</p><p>Before the eighteenth century time was past-oriented. This inversed in the Enlightenment when the future became dominating. Today this time of progress continues to be embraced as a time of the modern. Yet inequality increasing violence and climate change lead to doubts over a bright future. In this book Harry Jansen moves away from the heritage of Reinhart Koselleck and his single time of the modern towards a historicist threefold temporal approach to history writing. In the time regime of the twenty-first century past present and future coexist. It is a heterogeneous time that takes on the three forms of historicism. Jansen’s study shows how all three times exist together in current historiography and contribute to a better understanding of the world today.</p><p>Based on the idea that an incarnated time rules everything that happens it reality the book offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing discussion about time and time regimes in contemporary philosophy and theory of history for students and scholars both time specialists and the non-specialist. </p>