Hagen (Hrsg.) Schulz-Forberg

Zero Hours

Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period

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To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow - and thus to make history - is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented through the metaphor of the Zero Hour, which alludes to the wish to rebuild the past in the face of a crisis-ridden present characterised by growing conceptual insecurity, hoping for a more stable future. Indeed, the ever-new construction of our past, sequenced and ordered in explanatory narratives, bears witness to a future that 'ought to be'. As the case studies in this volume… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-2-87574-103-5
EAN: 9782875741035
Produktnummer: 15638916
Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 315 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B17.4 cm x D2.1 cm 441 g
Abbildungen: ill. b/w
Reihenbandnummer: 53
Gewicht: 441

Über den Autor

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor of Global and European History at Aarhus University, where he co-ordinates the International Studies programme. His latest monograph, co-authored with Bo Stråth, The Political History of European Integration (2010, paperback 2012), was shortlisted for the European Book Prize 2011.