Event
In Defense of Presentism| Title of the event | In Defense of Presentism |
| Organizer | Ostasiatisches Seminar, Institut für Soziologie |
| Speaker | Prof. David Armitage |
| Speaker institution | Harvard University |
| Type of event | Vortrag |
| Category | Forschung |
| Registration required | Nein |
| Details | Historians know one thing about presentism: they are against it. Yet what exactly presentism is, they cannot agree. Is it a focus on modern history or a novel way of thinking confined to the present at the expense of both past and future? Does it mean speaking only to the concerns of the present or recognising that “all history is contemporary history”? This confusion is a symptom of a deeper quandary: the very purpose of history writing itself. With the help of scholarship on presentism in other disciplines--philosophy, psychology, history of science—this lecture disentangles the various meanings of presentism, presents their ethical implications, and offers a tempered defence of presentism in history as a key to human flourishing. |
| Date | Start: 24.04.2019, 18:00 Uhr Ende: 24.04.2019 , 20:00 Uhr |
| Location |
Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa (Wilhelmsplatz 3) Taberna |
| Contact |
0551/39-21255 dominic.sachsenmaier@phil.uni-goettingen.de |
| External link | https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/veranstaltu... |