Time and History

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