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 SeriesJörn RüsenIntroductionJörn RüsenPART I: TIMEChapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical ConsciousnessJörn RüsenChapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional CulturesKlaus E. MüllerChapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in DimodonkoFritz W. KramerChapter 4. Time Concepts in ChinaAchim MittagChapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern IndiaGeorg BerkemerChapter 6. Interpretations of Time in IslamOtfried WeintrittChapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of ModernityHarro MüllerPART II: HISTORYChapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for OrganismAziz Al-AzmehChapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western DialogueAbdullahi A. An-Na’imChapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary IndiaB. D. ChattopadhyayaChapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense GenerationD. L. ShethChapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural DiversityMichael GottlobChapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century JapanMasayuki SatoChapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of JapanShingo ShimadaBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex