{"product_id":"historical-teleologies-in-the-modern-world-9781474221078","title":"Historical Teleologies in the Modern World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenning Trüper\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA and the Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty \u003c\/b\u003eis Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSanjay Subrahmanyam\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor almost two centuries, teleological conceptions of history defined a common condition for humanity with a limited selection of futures. The rich and wide-ranging essays comprising Historical Teleologies in the Modern World excavate teleology's multiple origins, contested pasts, and uncertain future. The book goes well beyond previous studies in its geographical breadth, methodological pluralism, and intellectual rigour and makes a striking contribution to world history, intellectual history, and the history of historical thinking. * David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eWith roots in antiquity, teleology is nonetheless a modern concept.  This penetrating and wide-ranging volume reveals the global career of teleological patterns in historical thought and political action since the Enlightenment. Teleological thinking was not the province of any one tradition, religious or secular, but of many. Treating many parts of the world, the volume shows that a plurality of historical teleologies and their multiple temporalities provoked equally complex political tensions.  Above all, if these essays give us new vantage points from which to critique the idea of historical teleology, they also demonstrate its tenacious hold upon the modern imaginary. * Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Notes on Contributors   Preface    \u003cb\u003eI. Two Genealogies of Historical Teleology\u003c\/b\u003e   1.  Introduction: Teleology and History: Nineteenth-Century Fortunes of an Enlightenment Project  \u003ci\u003eHenning Trüper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   2. The Politics of Eschatology: A Short Reading of the Long View  \u003ci\u003eSanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eII. Botched Vanishing Acts: On the Difficulties of Making Teleology Disappear\u003c\/b\u003e   3. The ‘Vocation of Man’ – ‘Die Bestimmung des Menschen’: A Teleological Concept of the German Enlightenment and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth Century  \u003ci\u003ePhilip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e   4. Earth History and the Order of Society: William Buckland, the French Connection, and the Conundrum of Teleology  \u003ci\u003eMarianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)\u003c\/i\u003e   5. After Darwin: Teleology in German Philosophical Anthropology  \u003ci\u003eAngus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIII. Befriending Teleology: Writings Histories with Ends\u003c\/b\u003e   6. Save Their Souls: Historical Teleology Goes to Sea in Nineteenth-Century Europe  \u003ci\u003eHenning Trüper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France)\u003c\/i\u003e   7. Reading History in Colonial India: Three Nineteenth-Century Narratives and their Teleologies  \u003ci\u003eSiddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India)\u003c\/i\u003e   8. A Gift of Providence: Destiny as National History in Colonial India  \u003ci\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIV. Teleology in the Revolutionary Polis\u003c\/b\u003e   9. The ‘Democracy of Blood’: The Colours of Racial Fusion in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America  \u003ci\u003eFrancisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)\u003c\/i\u003e   10. Between Context and Telos: Reviewing the Structures of International Law  \u003ci\u003eMartti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e   11. Marxism and the Idea of Revolution: The Messianic Moment in Marx  \u003ci\u003eEtienne Balibar (Université Paris 8, France\/Columbia University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eV. Translating Futures: Eschatology, History and the Individual\u003c\/b\u003e   12. Religious Teleologies and Violence in the United States: The Case of John Brown \u003ci\u003eCarola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e   13. ‘But Was I Really Primed?’ Gershom Scholem’s Zionist Project  \u003ci\u003eGabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   14. Catching Up to Oneself: Islam and the Representation of Humanity  \u003ci\u003eFaisal Devji (Oxford University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eVI. Historical Futures without Direction? \u003c\/b\u003e   15. Autonomy in History: Teleology in Nineteenth-Century European Social and Political Thought  \u003ci\u003ePeter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e   16. The Faces of Modernity: Crisis, Kairos, Chronos – Koselleck versus Hegel  \u003ci\u003eBo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138283372887,"sku":"9781474221078","price":33.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historical-teleologies-in-the-modern-world-9781474221078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}