Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as on literary and historical culture.

• Introduction: Futures for the past (‘This is a stub’) 1. Narrativity and dialectics revisited 2. Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic management of an artificial world 3. Tales of pastness and contemporaneity: on the politics of time in history and anthropology 4. Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past 5. Hayden White and Joan W. Scott’s feminist history: the practical past, the political present and an open future 6. The distinction of history: on valuing the insularity of the historical past 7. The Finnish Twitter war: the Winter War experienced through the #sota39 project and its implications for historiography 8. A history didactic experiment: the TV series Anno in a dramatist perspective

Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as on literary and historical culture.

• Introduction: Futures for the past (‘This is a stub’) 1. Narrativity and dialectics revisited 2. Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic management of an artificial world 3. Tales of pastness and contemporaneity: on the politics of time in history and anthropology 4. Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past 5. Hayden White and Joan W. Scott’s feminist history: the practical past, the political present and an open future 6. The distinction of history: on valuing the insularity of the historical past 7. The Finnish Twitter war: the Winter War experienced through the #sota39 project and its implications for historiography 8. A history didactic experiment: the TV series Anno in a dramatist perspective

Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as on literary and historical culture.

• Introduction: Futures for the past (‘This is a stub’) 1. Narrativity and dialectics revisited 2. Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic management of an artificial world 3. Tales of pastness and contemporaneity: on the politics of time in history and anthropology 4. Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past 5. Hayden White and Joan W. Scott’s feminist history: the practical past, the political present and an open future 6. The distinction of history: on valuing the insularity of the historical past 7. The Finnish Twitter war: the Winter War experienced through the #sota39 project and its implications for historiography 8. A history didactic experiment: the TV series Anno in a dramatist perspective