Abstract

FAZIO, Hugo  and  FAZIO, Daniela. Time and the Present in Global History and Its Epoch. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2018, n.65, pp.12-21. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res65.2018.02.

None of the social sciences or humanities has resisted the appeal of the study of time. That has been due to the profound changes which have shaken contemporary societies and shown the existence, not of a single time, but a plurality of temporal expressions. This article deals with the new expressions of time which have arisen from our historic contemporary globalism. From that standpoint “from the heights”, one is able to perceive the current state of things in a clearer way. The focus of this article is organized on the basis of a historical-historiographical axis which is in a constant dialogue with other social sciences and employs Reinhard Koselleck’s conception of time, that is, understanding it to be a constant and historically variable interlinking of experiences and expectations.

Keywords : acceleration; historical globalism; historical present; horizon of expectation; shared temporal-spatial horizon; space of experience.

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