Description
Book SynopsisA multitude of aspects of recent times - from natural disasters and pandemic crises, increasingly polarizing societies and alienated social classes, from twilight in the religious and radicalizations in the political field to the incipient shifts in power and fundamental changes in forms of rule - suggest that the World is in a state of upheaval. But is this a change with a clearly recognizable end and a clearly emerging new beginning, or are the events and processes to be understood in terms of a continuum? Humanities approaches to phenomena of change through the centuries provide insightful insights into the dynamics of the course of time. Assuming a simultaneity in the non-simultaneous, the volume sets itself the task of placing end points and new beginnings, which were caused by wars and crises, revolutions and paradigm shifts, in a larger overall context and thus making contemporary statements on research in the humanities and the nature of our age .
