Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History (2020) and Heidegger and Classical Thought (2024). He is currently writing his monograph, Thucydides and the Ground of History.

• Introduction: What is called History? Part 1: Does History have an Essence? 1. The Essence of History 2. If History had an Essence, it wouldn’t be History Part 2: History as Past, Past as History? 3. “The Past” is an Ambiguous Expression 4. Alain Badiou, the Metaphysics of the Event, and the Meaning of History 5. Time’s Travellers 6. Historical Reflection and the Passive Presence of the Historical Past Part 3: The End of History? 7. Temporality, History and Crisis 8. Freedom and Homelessness: The Historical Ground of Political Life 9. The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness

Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History (2020) and Heidegger and Classical Thought (2024). He is currently writing his monograph, Thucydides and the Ground of History.

• Introduction: What is called History? Part 1: Does History have an Essence? 1. The Essence of History 2. If History had an Essence, it wouldn’t be History Part 2: History as Past, Past as History? 3. “The Past” is an Ambiguous Expression 4. Alain Badiou, the Metaphysics of the Event, and the Meaning of History 5. Time’s Travellers 6. Historical Reflection and the Passive Presence of the Historical Past Part 3: The End of History? 7. Temporality, History and Crisis 8. Freedom and Homelessness: The Historical Ground of Political Life 9. The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness

Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History (2020) and Heidegger and Classical Thought (2024). He is currently writing his monograph, Thucydides and the Ground of History.

• Introduction: What is called History? Part 1: Does History have an Essence? 1. The Essence of History 2. If History had an Essence, it wouldn’t be History Part 2: History as Past, Past as History? 3. “The Past” is an Ambiguous Expression 4. Alain Badiou, the Metaphysics of the Event, and the Meaning of History 5. Time’s Travellers 6. Historical Reflection and the Passive Presence of the Historical Past Part 3: The End of History? 7. Temporality, History and Crisis 8. Freedom and Homelessness: The Historical Ground of Political Life 9. The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness