Author : Mihai Popa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527537331
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Book Synopsis The Concept of Time and Historical Experience by : Mihai Popa
Download or read book The Concept of Time and Historical Experience written by Mihai Popa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused on the question: does the event from which we extract historical experience acquire this status at the moment it occurs, or later as it is remembered through the generations? Historical experience is not a concept that facilitates the ascent of the historian to the fact – it is closely related to the fact. This does not make it easier to handle, because the fact itself is retractable; it hides its social (cultural) essence and meaning in time. The present of the historian (narrator) restores, as in an incessant change of perspective, the diachrony of the fact, looking for the present of the past fact. The experience suddenly becomes a relationship between two temporal actualities that seek their own cultural identity. From this perspective, history moves with us. The weight of the conceptualization of a past reality is given by the comprehensive weight (impossibility) of the fact (experience). The work is about the philosophy of history. It is addressed to students, historians, and researchers in the field of the theory of history.