Henning Truper

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World - Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World Henning Truper

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history--the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process--in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, philanthropism, revolutionary politics, European thought and practice in colonialism and empire, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history--From publisher's website. Table of Contents:1. Introduction: History and Teleology - Nineteenth-Century Fortunes of an Enlightenment Project "Henning Truper (IAS Princeton, USA/EHESS-CRH, Paris), Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)"2. Messianism "Sanjay Subrahmanyam"3. The 'Vocation of Man': A Teleological Concept of the German Enlightenment and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth Century "Philip Ajouri (University of Stuttgart, Germany)"4. Earth History and the Order of Society: William Buckland, the French Connection, and the Conundrum of Teleology "Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)"5. After Darwin: Teleology in German Philosophical Anthropology "Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK)"6. Save Their Souls: Historical Teleology Goes to Sea in Nineteenth-Century Europe "Henning Truper"7. Reading History in Colonial Cuttack: Three Nineteenth-Century Narratives and their Teleologies "Siddharth Satpathy"8. The 'Democracy of Blood': The Colors of Racial Fusion in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America "Francisco Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)"9. Marxism and the Idea of Revolution in 1844: The Messianic Moment "Etienne Balibar (Universite Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA)"10. Between Context and Telos: Reviewing the Structures of International Law "Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)"11. Religious teleologies: Violence and the Apocalypse in the United States Antebellum "Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany)"12. 'But Was I Really Primed?' Gershom Scholem's Zionist Project Gabriel Piterberg "(University of California, Los Angeles, USA)"13. Catching Up to Oneself: Islam and the Representation of Humanity "Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK)"14. Autonomy in History: Teleology in Nineteenth-Century European Social and Political Thought" Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)"15. The Faces of Modernity: Crisis, Kairos, Chronos - Koselleck versus Hegel "Bo Strath (University of Helsinki, Finland)"16. Climate Change, Teleology, and the Narratives of Industrial Civilization "Dipesh Chakrabarty"Index"Biographical Note: Henning Truper is a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA and the Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA."Publisher Marketing: "Historical Teleologies in the Modern World" tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process - in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism, the political thought and practice of revolution, emancipation, imperialism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. "Historical Teleologies in the Modern World" casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history. Contributor Bio:  Chakrabarty, Dipesh Dipesh Chakrabartyis the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2014Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history. Contributor Bio:  Subrahmanyam, Sanjay Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Contributor Bio:  Strath, Bo Bo Strath is Professor of Contemporary History, at the European University Institute, Florence. Contributor Bio:  Koskenniemi, Martti Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He worked as diplomat with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1994, representing Finland in a number of international institutions and conferences. As member of the UN International Law Commission (2002 6) he chaired the Study group on the 'Fragmentation of International Law'. He has written widely on international law topics and his present research interests cover the theory and history of the field.