Embodiment, empathy, rituals

What to do with the Past with the End of History

Authors

  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht University of Stanford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi60.442

Keywords:

end of history, embodiment of the past

Abstract

Based on a different conception, both Fukuyama's and his critics', of the so-called "end of history", two ways of conceiving this "end" are put forward.  First, that the historical vision of the world has lost its previous institutional centrality in the space of everyday life, and, second, that the discipline requires a profound revision of its premises, so that it has to redefine its potential functions, and finally, to replace itself. In the face of the emergence of a new "chronotope" [or "social construction of time"], which would lead to a concept of "incarnation" of the past, new approaches are proposed to confront some of the deficiencies and problems of our present.

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Author Biography

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, University of Stanford

Is a literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert Guérard Professor Emeritus in Literature at Stanford University. Since 1989, he has held the Albert Guérard Chair as Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. By courtesy, he was also affiliated with the Departments of German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature.

Gumbrecht's writing on philosophy and modern thought extends from the Middle Ages to today and incorporates an array of disciplines and styles, at times combining historical and philosophical inquiry with elements of memoir. Much of Gumbrecht's scholarship has focused on national literatures in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, and he is known for his work on the Western philosophical tradition, the materiality of presence, shifting views of the Enlightenment, forms of aesthetic experience, and the joys of watching sports.

As well as publishing academic works and teaching graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford, Gumbrecht is recognized as a public intellectual in Europe and South America and contributes to a range of newspapers and journals in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Published

2023-01-01

How to Cite

Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. 2023. “Embodiment, Empathy, Rituals: What to Do With the Past With the End of History”. Historia Y Grafía, no. 60 (January):21-34. https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi60.442.

Issue

No. 60 (2023): History: Practical or Academic?

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Dossier

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