The Transformation of Historical Time
Processual and Evental Temporalities
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I argue that contrary to all rumours, the enterprise of philosophy of history is very much alive today, even indispensable. This is of course not to say that postwar criticism can be completely disregarded. Th e question is not that of how to return to a discredited philosophy of history that invented a processual concept of history with attributes of directionality, teleology, inherent meaning and substance in the course of human affairs. Th e question is whether the possibility of change over time in human affairs can be conceptualized as ‘history’ without invoking the aforementioned attributes. This is no easy question. In fact, it even consists of two distinct but heavily interrelated questions: first, whether it is possible to conceive of historical time in other than processual-developmental terms; and second, whether such other-than-processual temporality can still be ‘historical’ in the sense of retaining the possibility of change over time in human affairs.
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