Historical teleologies in the modern world. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Henning Trüper, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
• Other Names: Trüper, Henning; Chakrabarty, Dipesh; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
• Contents: I. Two genealogies of historical teleology -- Introduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project / Henning Trüper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles) -- The politics of eschatology : a short reading of the long view / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- II. Botched vanishing acts : on the difficulties of making teleology disappear -- The "vocation of man"/"Die Bestimmung des Menschen" : a teleological concept of the German Enlightenment and its aftermath in the nineteenth century / Philip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany) -- Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology / Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland) -- After Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology / Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK) -- III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends -- Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe / Henning Trüper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France) -- Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies / Siddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India) -- A gift of providence : destiny as national history in colonial India / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- IV. Teleology in the revolutionary polis -- The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America / Francisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) -- Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law / Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) -- Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx / Etienne balibar (Université Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA) -- V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual -- Religious teleologies and violence in the United States : the case of John Brown / Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany) -- "But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project / Gabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles) -- Catching up to oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity / Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK) -- VI. Historical futures without direction? -- Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought / Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) -- The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel / Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland).
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 901; European history; History -- Philosophy; Historiography -- Philosophy; Teleology; History, Modern -- 19th century; History, Modern -- 20th century; Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century; Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY -- General; Historiography -- Philosophy; History, Modern; History -- Philosophy; Intellectual life; Teleology; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Modern -- 20th Century; History -- Modern -- 19th Century; History; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474221108; 1474221106; 9781474221092; 1474221092; 9781474221085; 1474221084
• Related ISBNs: 9781474221061; 9781474221078
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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