Sediments of Time - (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Reinhart Koselleck (Paperback)

Sediments of Time is a groundbreaking collection of essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck, providing new insights into his theory of history and its relation to time, concepts, and memory.

This definitive volume sheds light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; limits of historical meaning; and views on historical commemoration.

With a critical introduction addressing challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world, Sediments of Time offers literary historians an opportunity to reconsider the relation between history and fiction, bodily and linguistic experience, preverbal knowledge and discourse, singularity and repetition.

This collection is a must-read for scholars across the humanities seeking to move beyond the limitations of the linguistic turn and recover ontological and materialist perspectives.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to delve into the mind of one of the most influential European intellectual historians of the twentieth century!