Time and Transcendence: Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future

ISBN-13: 9780792317739 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 309 str.

Gabriel Gideon Motzkin; G. Motzkin

Opis

Time and Transcendence provides a new theory of secularization in the Catholic context, a new interpretation of the origins of modern historical science, and a new reading of Heidegger's theories of time and history. The author shows how a secular sense of the past evolved in early modern French memoirs. Memoirs uncovered a level of personal experience that was then applied as an intuitive framework for the study of history. Modern history's scientific study of sources is embedded in the imaginative sense of a personal past.

Spis treści

Preface. Section I: The Genesis of Secular History from Criticism and Memoirs. Introduction. Part I: The Problem of Religion. Part II: The Problem of Time. Part III: The Problem of Retrospection. 1. Memoirs and History: Saint-Simon. 2. From Education to Criticism: Lenglet. Section II: The Catholic Reaction to Secular History and the Rediscovery of Time. Introduction: Religion and the Secular Concept of Subjectivity. 1. The Development of the Catholitic Concept of Tradition from the Council of Trent to the Tübingen School. 2. The Tradition as an Alternative to Secular History in French Traditionalism. 3. The Catholic Turn to Philosophy as an Alternative Tradition. 4. The End of Continuity and Heidegger's Rediscovery of the Problem of Time. Index.