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Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics. Thirdly, temporal attributes are used not only to differentiate basic political principles but also to legitimize or delegitimize politics. Finally, politics aims at realizing futures in the present or preventing them from materializing. Consequently, the relationship between politics and time encompasses a broad spectrum of phenomena and processes that cry out for historicization. In our introduction to this History and Theory theme issue on chronopolitics, we argue that the concept of chronopolitics makes it possible to do this and, in the process, to move the operation of rethinking historical temporalities from the periphery toward the center of historiographical attention as well as to engage in a dialogue with scholars from a wide range of disciplines. To this end, we propose a broad concept of chronopolitics by discussing existing definitions, by distinguishing between three central dimensions of chronopolitics (the time of politics, the politics of time, and politicized time), and by systematizing possible approaches to studying chronopolitics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates selected literary works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a new historicist point of view. It examines the concept of history as being treated and narrated in a subjective - as opposed to objective - manner by the white historians. The study correspondingly aims at investigating Adichie's selected works that depict the pathway of return to history. In the light of these notional views, it provides a critical analysis to revisit, reshape and rewrite the pre-presumptive stands of racialized ideologies and cultures. Furthermore, it questions the position of postmodern blackness, especially of black women. To do so, the study examines literary depictions of the characters in Adichie's works through historical roles and features given to them in the texts, discussing the ways in which the selected novels reflect a variety of experiences that the literary narrators wish to convey to the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, drawing upon Tosaka Jun's response to Interwar debates on historicism and his account of everydayness, I offer an explanation for why contemporary secular apocalyptic claims lack convergence by focusing on the historical dimension of such claims. Everydayness, organized the routines of work and rest, is shown to be the basis for a sense of historical time, and theoretical journalism is outlined as the kind of collective epistemic procedure needed to produce a collective sense of a community's place in historical time. I defend the claim that the cause of starkly opposed responses to apocalyptic claims is due to qualitative differences in the work and rest that organize the everyday temporality. In the absence of a theoretical journalism, whether one subscribes to an apocalyptic claim will be contingent on heterogeneous personal circumstance. I conclude by outlining a limit case of indigenous post-apocalyptic claims under settler-colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As revealed by Allah (c.c.), Hz. It should be said that the Qur'an, which was revealed to all humanity through the Prophet (pbuh), had a meaning far beyond being just a book for Muslims after its revelation. Because the Qur'an is both a guide for MusIims and a book that makes them exist in history and aIso gives them personaIity whiIe maintaining their existence. The Qur'an has functioned as a source of nutrition and a vital value for Muslims since its revelation, in all past historicities as weII as in the one we Iive in. Therefore, it is cIear that this is again a miracIe of the divine text. When viewed from this perspective, some soIutions shouId be produced based on the Qur'an for the deadIocks of today's historicism. Because it is conscientiousIy true that aII kinds of scientific and eye-opening ideas shouId be evaIuated. However, imprisoning the Iofty word in history is the greatest injustice that can be done to it. DeveIoping different arguments about the validity of its provisions, especially by postponing the text of the Qur'an, both casts a shadow over the universality of the Qur'an and opens the subject of the divine text to discussion. In this sense, it is quite possible that it wouId be more meaningfuI and accurate to deveIop a method taking into account the IsIamic tradition and acquis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Margaret Atwood’s short story collection Wilderness Tips contains ten stories that, among other topics, deal with the way the past and the present overlap in human life. In most of them, middle-aged characters look back at the events from their childhood or adolescence that shaped them as human beings, changed their destiny, and affected their present life. These characters, at a safe distance from their past and with the benefit of hindsight, are finally able to understand these crucial events and, as a result of this, they revise their personal histories and retell their stories. This paper will explore how stories from this collection tackle the relationship between the past, tradition, and history on the one hand and the present time on the other. In order to analyze this relationship, the paper will survey some of the discoveries that postmodern literary theories, such as new historicism, made regarding the study and representation of history, the truthfulness of fiction, the selection and interpretation of facts, and the possibility of different perspectives, etc. The focus of the paper will be the story “The Age of Lead” since it presents both the personal (hi)stories of its characters and a true historical event connected to their lives.

This article proposes to review the critique of historicism and the notion of progress in On the concept of history by Walter Benjamin (1940), to put it in relation to Friedrich Nietzsche's theses on history. Indeed, in the so-called second untimely consideration, On the usefulness and harm of history for life (1874), he proposes to think about history from a conception contrary to scientism that is, in some way, represented with the objectivity promoted by authors like Leopold von Ranke. In this sense, a conceptual relationship could be established between Benjamin and Nietzsche in order to propose that their perspectives constitute complementary views of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

History functions and is defined depending on the historical context: in the modern era, it can be part of the national ideology; in Antiquity, it was perceived as a literary genre; in the Middle Ages, it was a religious worldview. In the post-capitalist era, theories about the “end of history” can also be explained as part of an ideologeme or a mythologeme. The paper aims to formulate the mechanisms of relations between the historical knowledge and the historical era. The functions of history in the contemporary world after the declared “end of history' were discussed. The concepts of attention economy and platform capitalism were considered as the basis for determining the specificity of contemporary society. The research focuses on the forms of re-actualization of the concept of history, which we can observe now, at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. How does the concept of history function? For what purpose is it reproduced after the “end of history” and the “death of the social” proclaimed in the late 20th century? Can such re-actualization be considered a “Renaissance” of the social? These are the main questions covered by this paper.

This article analyzes some historical accounts by researcher Alberto Dallal about stage dance in 20th century Mexico. Three issues are identified in them: 1) the linearity of history and its teleological division between modern and contemporary dance; 2) the incorporation of the Western categories of modern and contemporary into the history of Mexican dance to show its development; 3) the explanation of the origin and the occurrence of the dance through certain exemplary individuals. A discursive critique of history is proposed to avoid linearities and hierarchies, and the coexistence of other expressions overshadowed by the dominant narratives is explored.

Many students experience difficulty with the tensions and disjunctures between their vernacular ways of communication and standardized college English. The history of linguistic standardization in European imperialism, however, provides a pedagogically helpful critical heuristic for examining with students the power relations inherent in college writing instruction. By historicizing the entanglements of language and power, students are empowered to choose how and what they want to learn based on an awareness of their educational situatedness and with the support of a open and reflexive instructor.

The article attempts to elaborate a comparative analysis of Mircea Eliade's and Karl Löwith's linear time notions. Despite many and far-reaching similarities of their concepts, the existing research lacks such comparison. Both authors present the perception of time as a line as an image that originated in Judaism and was later introduced to the Western culture by the dissemination of Christianity. Both contrast this notion with a primordial scheme of cyclical time that had prevailed within ancient or archaic societies. Eliade and Löwith emphasize the significance of the linear image for the birth and evolution of Western historical reflection, initially in the form of the theology of history and later as the paradigm of historicism. They consider the latter the leading cause of the Western spiritual collapse, which manifested in the twentieth century in existentialistic nihilism or totalitarian barbarity. The article aims to specify all those convergences by indicating an anthropological dimension of both authors' thoughts. It will lead to outlining Eliade's and Löwith's disparate propositions of remedies for the said spiritual crisis. Furthermore, the presentation of both thinker's views on linearity will make it possible to present Eliade's complex understanding of Judeo-Christianity and address some controversies that arose around it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text offers a reappraisal of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History (Über den Begriff der Geschichte; ‘On the Concept of History’) from the perspective of global politics today and its similarities with the socio-economic and political situation in Europe and the Americas during the 1920s and 30s; more specifically, the impact of crises on the erosion of trust in liberal representative democracy and the concomitant rise of mostly rightwing populist movements and their strongmen leaders, aided to a significant degree by the media, ‘old’ and ‘new’ alike. The purpose of the text is to draw lessons from Benjamin’s vision of materialist historiography for our current political predicament.

This essay is a response to Denis Noble's argument that the evolutionary synthesis was based on illusory science and that it itself is a kind of illusion. The response includes an historical examination of the relationship between evolutionary biology and molecular biology, along with the importance of history in evolutionary biology, which is an historical science. It raises concerns about adherence to one standard evolutionary theory, and urges the reader to consider a more contextualist and historicist approach, one that adopts a more pluralistic view of evolutionary theory. It ends with the provocative question of what evolution would mean if it had no history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is necessary to conduct an analysis of relations between Japan and Russia to determine the main trends and prospects for joint development. The purpose of the article is to study and disclose the stages of development of cultural relations between Russia and Japan and determine its features, highlight the most pressing problems of relations and identify possible ways to build strong interstate relations. The methodological basis of the study is the analytical method, for a comprehensive analysis of the changes that occurred during the development of cultural relations between Japan and Russia. Also a prerequisite is compliance with the principles of historicism and objectivity. In the course of studying used the method of study and systematization of literature. As a result of studying the problem, we can evaluate the historical development of cultural relations between Russia and Japan. Assess the state of relations between Russia and Japan and uncover limitations and growth points to strengthen relations between Japan and Russia. The results of this study can be useful as Japanologists and to specialists dealing with the problems of Asia-Pacific as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Many literary theorists and historians of our time are increasingly exploring the historical circumstances under which literary works were created. Historicism in literary science is not only about the restoration of an earlier state of society, but rather an entirely new literary practice that involves linking literary and non-literary texts in one continuity. It is impossible to accept that literary works exist in a aesthetic vacuum that has nothing to do with the historical context in which they arose. So literary works are not an autonomous aesthetic sphere, neither do literary works exist separately from other forms of cultural creativity of a historical period. Literature not only adapts to the history and draws inspiration from it, but even adjusts it to itself because literary works can sway the facts, spread the ideology of various colors, oppose to the policies and ideals in a direct or indirect way. There is no unhistorical literary work. If nothing else, it has found, chronologically speaking, his place in history, so it is no surprise that Zdenko Lesic is satisfied by the fact that contemporary interpreters of literature failed to banish the “demons of chronology” when they tried to approach their target literature as a purely artistic category.

This article analyzes the connection of the modern writing of history with the domination of the conqueror, the sovereignty imposed by war and the concealment of this connection. At the same time, this paper postulates that the shift of other forms of relation with time towards «culture» constitutes the double episteme of this original formula of domination. The test is structured in four parts: 1. A study of the relationship between writing and conquest; 2. A work on the link between the writing of history and the theory of sovereignty, between the writing of history and colonialism; 3. A study of the procedures that relegated in culture the non-linear forms of relationship with time; 4. An approach of the mechanisms of historicism which prevent the thought of anachronism, asynchrony or repetition as subordinate historical logics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a necessary condition for recognising change that there is a yardstick against which the change can be perceived. The same applies to changes that philosophical concepts undergo. This paper delineates standards for recognising conceptual change that meet the requirements of conscientious history of philosophy. More particularly, we want to argue for the need of what we will call non-textual standards. These are features of the world of experience that must be assumed to be shared between us and the historical authors we study. While they must be used in tandem with the recognised contextual standards of conceptual change, we will argue that without recourse to at least some non-textual standards, important kinds of conceptual change will remain inexplicable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to reflect the key milestones of the life path of the last kish ataman of Zaporoz’ka Sich P. Kalnyshevsky, to analyze the controversial issues regarding his date of birth, ancestry and career stages. The attention is focused on the economic, military and charitable activities of the head of Zaporoz’ka Sich. There were mentioned the new pages of his philanthropy and censorship. There is investigated the authenticity of the portrait of P. Kalnyshevsky and there are revealed the new views regarding the authenticity of his images. The methodology of the study is based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness and ideologism. There were applied the general scientific, historical and special historiographical methods during the process of solving the problem. The main results of the study are manifested in the implementation of the systematic and comprehensive analysis of the problem, the identification of the leading tendencies and the separate patterns in the study of P. Kalnyshevsky’s figure; in the introduction to scientific use a new data of the kish ataman’s biography; in the conceptual rethinking of a number of assessments and stereotypical positions, that have already dominated in the historiography; in the refutation of a number of factual, analytical differences and myths in his biography. It is promising to continue the search and publication of specific historical sources about P. Kalnyshevsky, to create his prosopographic portrait on the historical background of the day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is an application of New Formalist criticism to the study of W. B. Yeats's poem "Nineteen Hundred Nineteen." It is written in the conviction that now more than ever, it is important to recognize the historicity of literary form as a rudimentary paradigm in any theorized or illustrative account of literature. Within the domain of literary criticism, debates about form have broadly been orchestrated by two polarized views: one is textualist and is largely concerned with the form and language of the literary artifact; the other is historicist, referential, or contextual and is largely concerned with the thematics and historicity of the literary text. Less polarized positions that address form while championing historicity--like new historicism and late twentieth-century Marxism--have not been explicit or systematic enough to anchor form in its socio-historical grounding. We had to wait until the first decade of the third millennium to witness a methodical attempt to re-inscribe literary form in its socio-historical determinants at the hands of New Formalists, whose critical approach are explicated and illustrated in this article. After reviewing the available literature, defining New Formalism, and sorting out the New Formalist analytical paradigms, the author uses these paradigms to study Yeats's "Nineteen Hundred Nineteen" by conducting a close reading of this poem with a focus on the relationship between rhetoric and reference, aesthetics and politics, form and history, form and reader, as well as literary text and literary tradition in this lyrical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The demand of the literary work to gain autonomous and fictional existence within the New Criticism in the first half of the twentieth century, radically breaks with the historicity in its interpretation. In the second half of the twentieth century, the Reception Aesthetics with the concept of 'historicity of reader' and New Historicism with the concept of 'historicity of text' and 'textuality of history' stand at a meaningful point among efforts to return to historical consciousness that disappeared after the New Criticism. However, in both approaches, it is seen that the historicity of understanding literary texts predominantly shape through the only historicity of reader or only historicity of text. In this paper, it will be argued that this situation impoverishes the two-way historicity of understanding literary texts at two opposite ends. This paper also will mainly focus on the fundamental problems in the context of the tension relationship of literature with history in historicist literary theory, New Criticism, Reception Aesthetics and New Historicism. It will also be stated that reading the literary text is basically historical with its different dimensions such as the reader finds himself/herself thrown into history, the temporal of experience, the incompleteness of human existence and literary text. The ability to establish a meaningful relationship with history and historical without damaging the fictional existence and autonomy of literary text can be realized through the historicity of reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Talking about history in a synoptic or panoptic way is another version of ‘talking about something in its totality’ (as a whole) which is the characteristic dimension of metaphysical tradition. This way of talking on history serves for experiencing solely a grand narration (or mythos in its literal meaning) itself, and not the history as a course of happening. For that reason, historicity as an ontological experience of history lets us realize that we understand history basically in terms of the question ‘how’, and not ‘what. Namely, understanding history in terms of the question ‘how’ reveals the critical, fragile, changeable and unforeseeable dimension of the course of happening. Any significant discourse on history becomes immediately a part of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is an old cliché that Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' (PE) is historically wrong or deficient. Recent work by German sociologists has reinforced this view, with the aim of further demoting the text within Weber's oeuvre: as if it was a work of bad history and nothing more. This paper takes a contrary view. It argues that the text is neither 'wrong' (to say so is a category error) nor is it confined to the past. Rather, it is much misunderstood, and a principal reason for this is our ignorance of Weber's uniquely sophisticated historicism, an area of his thought that has hardly been examined hitherto. The PE must be read as a product of this historicism, and set within the comparative context of contemporary European historicism, which was then at its apogee. Seen in this light, it is not only a pre-eminent guide to Weber's modern social theory, but one of the most carefully constructed and original historical works in all of European thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a practical essay meant especially for scholars trained in other disciplines or interdisciplinarians who want to "historicize" their topics but are unclear about historical methodology. It argues that historical scholarship, above all, pursues a rigorous understanding of how historical context creates transformation over time and historical contingency. Three subsections discuss the interpretive quality of history, historical context and contingency, and the archive as central to debates about historical explanations of the present. Each subsection includes advice for scholars who want to historicize their projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses and compares general education and specialised schools built in Lithuania, Europe and the USA during interwar years. The main problem analysed in the article is the correspondence between the architectural stylistics and functional spatial structure of interwar Lithuanian school buildings with the same typology buildings in the regional context. The aim of the article is to assess the essence of changes of architectural stylistics and functional spatial structure, what caused these changes. Interwar architecture in Lithuania has many of the main trends of the global architecture of that time, so undoubtedly interwar period is considered to be one of the most significant periods in the history of Lithuanian architecture, which has laid the foundations for the further development of Lithuanian architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]