Hartog's Account of Historical Times and the Rise of Presentism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9879950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christophe Bouton (0000-0001-6609-5696, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 360 |
| Pages | 309-330 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-229x.12734 |
| OpenAlex | W2920946267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
In his book Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time (2003; Engl. trans. 2015), Hartog develops a new notion, that of the ‘regime of historicity’, with a view to describing the different relations societies entertain with their own historicity, their different ‘experiences of time’. He applies this concept to our present epoch, which, according to him, makes available a new experience of time, founded in the primacy of the present: presentism. This diagnosis is advanced as a hypothesis which itself exhibits two sides, depending on whether presentism is thought as a provisional phase or whether, on the contrary, it is taken to be a durable state, our new ‘regime of historicity’. In this article, I want to come to terms with the epistemological and semantic status of the concept of a ‘regime of historicity’, situated at the intersection of anthropology (1) and of the theory of history developed in the German tradition (Reinhart Koselleck) (2). Then, I would like to examine the way in which Hartog makes use of this concept as a methodological instrument, making it possible for him to distinguish several regimes of historicity and to lay them out periodically (3). Finally, I would like to discuss the thesis of a contemporary ‘presentism’ in both of its two versions, ‘stopgap’ or ‘new state’ (4). Hence my question: how far can our contemporary experience of time be reduced to the category of ‘presentism’
B-theory of time · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy · Political science · Presentism · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · European history and politics · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity · Philosophy
Futures past and present
Persistent Catastrophes
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope
Tiempo histórico, memoria colectiva y la finitud de la comprensión histórica
Quién le teme a la síntesis? Ensayo sobre la escritura de un género histórico proscrito
Negotiating presentism
A haunting past
The Predatory Present
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |