Eelco Runia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1689335 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eelco Runia |
| PRENOMES | Eelco |
| SOBRENOME | Runia |
| ASSINATURA | RUNIA E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The past is not a foreign country
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Eelco Runia’s thinking about history. The following topics are discussed: the relations between history, psychology and fiction; the critique of representationalism in the contemporary philosophy of history; the presence of the past; the question of continuity, discontinuity and mutation in history; the importance of metonymy as the quintessenti…
Inventing the new from the old – from White's ‘tropics’ to Vico's ‘topics’
Hayden White said a long time ago that it is important ‘to understand what is fictive in all putatively realistic representations of the world, and what is realistic in all manifestly fictive ones.’ In the past decades only the first half of this project has been taken up: White's own ‘tropics’ can be regarded as a research strategy to understand what is fictive in realistic representations of the world. In this essay I venture into the second pa…
Reply to Jenkins
Reply to Referee's Report
Into Cleanness Leaping
Surely one of the key issues in historiography is how to account for those mind-boggling and sometimes extremely bloody events in which we enter something really, sublimely new. In this essay my point of departure is that retrospectively it is almost impossible even for the historical actors themselves to get access to the contingent, irrational, "sacrilegious" aspect of the sublime event they brought about. In order to get a grip on the evanesce…
Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure Machine
If it is true, as I have argued in an earlier essay, that discontinuity is not an unintended side-effect of our ambition to attain goals that are in line with our identity, but the result of our giving in to a sublime "why not?," then how can we conceive of history as a process? In this essay I will explore the thesis that my notion that the discontinuities of history spring from a dehors texte squares well with an evolutionary view of history. I…
Burying the Dead, Creating the Past1
Professional historians tend to be ambivalent about one of the prime historical phenomena of our time: the desire to commemorate. The amount of attention given to memory (collective or not) and trauma bears witness to the fact that historians really do want to give in to that desire; the fact that they treat these subjects in a rather "positivist" way suggests that they regard it as a bit improper to do so wholeheartedly. As a result commemoratio…
Spots of Time
An unapparent connection holds more firmly than an apparent one-Heraclitus2 ABSTRACTHow can the subliminal, mysterious, but uncommonly powerful living-on, the presence, of the past be envisaged? In this essay I argue that presence is not brought about by stories- by, that is, the "storiness" of stories. presence rather shows itself in how the past can force us-and enable us-to rewrite our stories about ourselves. The question then is how we acqui…
Presence
Erst wie eine fremde Gewalt [der Mensch] ergreift, ihm forttreibt, und ... in ihm lebendig wird, kommt wirkliches und wahrhaftes Daseyn in sein Leben."-Fichte2 ABSTRACTFor more than thirty years now, thinking about the way we, humans, account for our past has taken place under the aegis of representationalism. In its first two decades, representationalism, inaugurated by Hayden White's Metahistory of 1973, has been remarkably successful, but by n…
Forget About It
Dominick LaCapra has remarked that "when you study something, you always have a tendency to repeat the problems you are studying." In psychoanalytic supervision this phenomenon is called "parallel processing." Parallel processes are subconscious re-enactments of past events: when you are caught up in a parallel process, your behavior repeats key aspects of what there is to know about what you're studying-in a way, however, that you yourself don't…
Presence
Erst wie eine fremde Gewalt [der Mensch] ergreift, ihm forttreibt, und ... in ihm lebendig wird, kommt wirkliches und wahrhaftes Daseyn in sein Leben."-Fichte2 ABSTRACTFor more than thirty years now, thinking about the way we, humans, account for our past has taken place under the aegis of representationalism. In its first two decades, representationalism, inaugurated by Hayden White's Metahistory of 1973, has been remarkably successful, but by n…
Spots of Time
An unapparent connection holds more firmly than an apparent one-Heraclitus2 ABSTRACTHow can the subliminal, mysterious, but uncommonly powerful living-on, the presence, of the past be envisaged? In this essay I argue that presence is not brought about by stories- by, that is, the "storiness" of stories. presence rather shows itself in how the past can force us-and enable us-to rewrite our stories about ourselves. The question then is how we acqui…
Into Cleanness Leaping
Surely one of the key issues in historiography is how to account for those mind-boggling and sometimes extremely bloody events in which we enter something really, sublimely new. In this essay my point of departure is that retrospectively it is almost impossible even for the historical actors themselves to get access to the contingent, irrational, "sacrilegious" aspect of the sublime event they brought about. In order to get a grip on the evanesce…
Inventing the new from the old – from White's ‘tropics’ to Vico's ‘topics’
Hayden White said a long time ago that it is important ‘to understand what is fictive in all putatively realistic representations of the world, and what is realistic in all manifestly fictive ones.’ In the past decades only the first half of this project has been taken up: White's own ‘tropics’ can be regarded as a research strategy to understand what is fictive in realistic representations of the world. In this essay I venture into the second pa…
Reply to Jenkins
Reply to Referee's Report
Burying the Dead, Creating the Past1
Professional historians tend to be ambivalent about one of the prime historical phenomena of our time: the desire to commemorate. The amount of attention given to memory (collective or not) and trauma bears witness to the fact that historians really do want to give in to that desire; the fact that they treat these subjects in a rather "positivist" way suggests that they regard it as a bit improper to do so wholeheartedly. As a result commemoratio…
Forget About It
Dominick LaCapra has remarked that "when you study something, you always have a tendency to repeat the problems you are studying." In psychoanalytic supervision this phenomenon is called "parallel processing." Parallel processes are subconscious re-enactments of past events: when you are caught up in a parallel process, your behavior repeats key aspects of what there is to know about what you're studying-in a way, however, that you yourself don't…
Spots of Time
An unapparent connection holds more firmly than an apparent one-Heraclitus2 ABSTRACTHow can the subliminal, mysterious, but uncommonly powerful living-on, the presence, of the past be envisaged? In this essay I argue that presence is not brought about by stories- by, that is, the "storiness" of stories. presence rather shows itself in how the past can force us-and enable us-to rewrite our stories about ourselves. The question then is how we acqui…
Presence
Erst wie eine fremde Gewalt [der Mensch] ergreift, ihm forttreibt, und ... in ihm lebendig wird, kommt wirkliches und wahrhaftes Daseyn in sein Leben."-Fichte2 ABSTRACTFor more than thirty years now, thinking about the way we, humans, account for our past has taken place under the aegis of representationalism. In its first two decades, representationalism, inaugurated by Hayden White's Metahistory of 1973, has been remarkably successful, but by n…
Burying the Dead, Creating the Past1
Professional historians tend to be ambivalent about one of the prime historical phenomena of our time: the desire to commemorate. The amount of attention given to memory (collective or not) and trauma bears witness to the fact that historians really do want to give in to that desire; the fact that they treat these subjects in a rather "positivist" way suggests that they regard it as a bit improper to do so wholeheartedly. As a result commemoratio…
Inventing the new from the old – from White's ‘tropics’ to Vico's ‘topics’
Hayden White said a long time ago that it is important ‘to understand what is fictive in all putatively realistic representations of the world, and what is realistic in all manifestly fictive ones.’ In the past decades only the first half of this project has been taken up: White's own ‘tropics’ can be regarded as a research strategy to understand what is fictive in realistic representations of the world. In this essay I venture into the second pa…
Reply to Jenkins
Reply to Referee's Report
Into Cleanness Leaping
Surely one of the key issues in historiography is how to account for those mind-boggling and sometimes extremely bloody events in which we enter something really, sublimely new. In this essay my point of departure is that retrospectively it is almost impossible even for the historical actors themselves to get access to the contingent, irrational, "sacrilegious" aspect of the sublime event they brought about. In order to get a grip on the evanesce…
Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure Machine
If it is true, as I have argued in an earlier essay, that discontinuity is not an unintended side-effect of our ambition to attain goals that are in line with our identity, but the result of our giving in to a sublime "why not?," then how can we conceive of history as a process? In this essay I will explore the thesis that my notion that the discontinuities of history spring from a dehors texte squares well with an evolutionary view of history. I…
The past is not a foreign country
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Eelco Runia’s thinking about history. The following topics are discussed: the relations between history, psychology and fiction; the critique of representationalism in the contemporary philosophy of history; the presence of the past; the question of continuity, discontinuity and mutation in history; the importance of metonymy as the quintessenti…
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