Original version
Ideengeschichte heute. Traditionen und Perspektiven.. 2017, 195-214, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839439241-008
Abstract
In this essay, I set off from a presumption that many of the theoretical and methodological debates which have been dominating the field of what we – loosely and without large claims to epistemological or sociological precision – could call “intellectual history” are really debates about how to deal with time in history. Time should here be understood both in a chronological sense, referring to the succession of years, decades, even centuries, as well as to precise historical dates, which are evoked in the study of human thought and language, and in a phenomenological sense, as the organization of temporal experiences according to specific patterns and figures, such as periodizations, narratives of progress or decline, growth and extinction, as well as speeds and rhythms, continuities and breaks.