From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time
This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler—to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time.
Inspired by the insights of Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog, two pioneers of the "temporal turn" in historiography, Clark shows how Friedrich Wilhelm rejected the notion of continuity with the past, believing instead that a sovereign must liberate the state from the entanglements of tradition to choose freely among different possible futures. He demonstrates how Frederick the Great abandoned this paradigm for a neoclassical vision of history in which sovereign and state transcend time altogether, and how Bismarck believed that the statesman's duty was to preserve the timeless permanence of the state amid the torrent of historical change. Clark describes how Hitler did not seek to revolutionize history like Stalin and Mussolini, but instead sought to evade history altogether, emphasizing timeless racial archetypes and a prophetically foretold future.
Elegantly written and boldly innovative, Time and Power takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the fall of the Third Reich, revealing the connection between political power and the distinct temporalities of the leaders who wield it.
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Time and Power
Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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Time and Power
Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2019Print ISBN
9780691217321
9780691181653
eBook ISBN
9780691185989
THe
HisTory
macHine
[
53
]
of
which
occasions
we
so
lamentably
spoiled,
destroyed,
ruined
and
devastated
land
and
people’.
94
Woven
together
of
material
drawn
from
the
forty‑odd
printed
weekly
newspapers
published
in
the
cities
of
the
Holy
Roman
Empire,
histories
of
this
kind
made
it
possible
to
imagine
the
proximate
future
not
as
the
ful‑
filment
of
a
preordained
plan,
but
as
empty,
like
the
still‑
unprinted
pages
of
a
newspaper,
waiting
to
be
filled
with
the
acts
and
events
of
the
powerful.
95
This
was
precisely
that
world
of
‘conjunctures’
(
Conjuncturen
)
and
‘trends’
(
Läufe
)
the
Elec‑
tor
so
often
invoked
in
his
communications
with
the
Estates.
In
his
‘royal
memoirs’,
a
confidential
text
intended
for
the
eyes
of
his
successor,
Louis
XIV
observed
that
kings
owe
an
fiGUre
1.2.
Engraving
from
the
Theatrum
Europaeum
showing
how
the
Great
Elector
led
his
forces
into
the
Duchy
of
Prussia
in
1679,
surprising
the
Swedish
army
encamped
there.
Source
:
Anon.,
Theatri
Europaei
Eilffter
Theil
Oder:
Außführlich
fortgeführte
Friedens
und
KriegsBeschreibung
[…]
(Frankfurt/Main,
1682),
1466.
Collection
of
the
author.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 The History Machine
- CHAPTER 2 The Historian King
- CHAPTER 3 Boatman on the River of Time
- CHAPTER 4 Time of the Nazis
- Conclusion and Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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