Pogingen de tijd te 'temmen'

Een historiografische vergelijking tussen Reinhart Koselleck en Aleida Assmann

Samenvatting

In her recent work on the crisis of the ‘modern time regime’, literary scholar Aleida Assmann (1947-) calls into question Reinhart Koselleck’s influential theory on the rise of modern historical consciousness. She argues that the development of a modern conception of
time cannot be captured in a singular linear history. This paper aims to provide insight into the theoretical and normative perspective underlying Koselleck’s approach on the one hand and Assmann’s on the other. By way of a comparison it seeks to demonstrate how authors make implicit theoretical and normative choices, which largely determine the outcome of their analyses.