Abstract (may include machine translation)
In der fortgeschrittenen Moderne treten verschiedene Ansätze auf, Raum und Geschichte kritisch in ein neues Verhältnis zu setzen. Einerseits werden historiographische Ansätze verräumlicht, während der Raum andererseits historisiert wird. Diese komplementären Ansätze einer Verräumlichung der Geschichte und der Historisierung des Raums werden im Folgenden entfaltet. Beide Aspekte sind insofern miteinander verwoben, als der Raum seit Descartes als ebenso geschichtslos gedacht wurde wie die abendländische Geschichte seit der Aufklärung als raumlos konzipiert wurde. Die zeit und sprachzentrierte Moderne hatte, nach einem der führenden politischen Geographen, Edward Soja, eine umfassende despatialisation zur Folge, die sie in einen »Kerker einer ausschließlichen Temporalität« (zit. n. Schlögel 2003, 49) verwandelt habe. Zum Gefängnis werden konnte die Zeitlichkeit, weil sie in ihrer historiographischen Verfassung vom Raum getrennt wurde — eine Trennung, gegen die heute umfangreiche Gegenmaßnahmen eingeleitet werden.
In advanced modernity, various approaches have emerged to critically place space and history in a new relationship. On the one hand, historiographical approaches are being spatialised, while space is being historicised on the other. These complementary approaches of a spatialisation of history and the historicisation of space are developed in the following. Both aspects are interwoven insofar as, since Descartes, space has been conceived as being without history, just as Western history has been conceived as being without space since the Enlightenment. According to one of the leading political geographers, Edward Soja, time- and language-centred modernity resulted in a comprehensive despatialisation that transformed it into a "dungeon of an exclusive temporality" (cited in Schlögel 2003, 49). Temporality could become a prison because it was separated from space in its historiographical constitution - a separation against which extensive countermeasures are being introduced today.
In advanced modernity, various approaches have emerged to critically place space and history in a new relationship. On the one hand, historiographical approaches are being spatialised, while space is being historicised on the other. These complementary approaches of a spatialisation of history and the historicisation of space are developed in the following. Both aspects are interwoven insofar as, since Descartes, space has been conceived as being without history, just as Western history has been conceived as being without space since the Enlightenment. According to one of the leading political geographers, Edward Soja, time- and language-centred modernity resulted in a comprehensive despatialisation that transformed it into a "dungeon of an exclusive temporality" (cited in Schlögel 2003, 49). Temporality could become a prison because it was separated from space in its historiographical constitution - a separation against which extensive countermeasures are being introduced today.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | Raum: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch |
Editors | Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling |
Place of Publication | Stuttgart |
Publisher | J.B. Metzler |
Pages | 121-321 |
Number of pages | 201 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-476-05326-8 |
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State | Published - 2010 |