Time and History (eBook)

Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Study (Zif). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen and Professor for General History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten-Herdecke.

Preface to the Series
Jörn Rüsen

Introduction
Jörn Rüsen

PART I: TIME

Chapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness
Jörn Rüsen

Chapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures
Klaus E. Müller

Chapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko
Fritz W. Kramer

Chapter 4. Time Concepts in China
Achim Mittag

Chapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India
Georg Berkemer

Chapter 6. Interpretations of Time in Islam
Otfried Weintritt

Chapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity
Harro Müller

PART II: HISTORY

Chapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism
Aziz Al-Azmeh

Chapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue
Abdullahi A. An-Na’im

Chapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India
B. D. Chattopadhyaya

Chapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense Generation
D. L. Sheth

Chapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity
Michael Gottlob

Chapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
Masayuki Sato

Chapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan
Shingo Shimada

Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index