Plurihistoricity

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, and in the imperative of bringing colonial patterns of historical injustice to justice.

Autorentext

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon is a historian and historical theorist at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has been assistant professor at Leiden University and visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He authored the books History in Times of Unprecedented Change (2019) and The Epochal Event (2020) and co-authored The Fabric of Historical Time (2023).

Inhalt

On Plurihistoricity: An Introduction Part 1: Transitioning to Futures 1. History After the End of the World 2. Utopias of Extinction 3. Two Cultures of the Posthuman Future Part 2: Creating Pasts 4. Making Pasts Matter 5. Modes of Historicization: Historicism and Constructionism 6. Bringing History to Justice Part 3: Inhabiting Presents 7. Historicities in Conflict: The Desynchronization of Political and Technological Change 8. The Historical Cultures of the Anthropocene 9. Unfathomable Futures and Cognitive Control On the Societal Function of Historiography: A Postscript in Five Theses