Abstract

ULRICH GUMBRECHT, Hans. Embodiment, Empathy, Rituals. What to Do with the Past after the End of History.Translated byAldo Mazzucchelli. Hist. graf [online]. 2023, n.60, pp.21-34.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi60.442.

Based on a different conception, both Fukuyama's and his critics', of the so-called "end of history", two ways of conceiving this "end" are put forward. First, that the historical vision of the world has lost its previous institutional centrality in the space of everyday life, and, second, that the discipline requires a profound revision of its premises, so that it has to redefine its potential functions, and finally, to replace itself. In the face of the emergence of a new "chronotope" [or "social construction of time"], which would lead to a concept of "incarnation" of the past, new approaches are proposed to confront some of the deficiencies and problems of our present.

Keywords : end of history; embodiment od the past.