Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: The unity of the European constitution

Editor list: Dann, Philipp; Rynkowski, Michał

Publication year: 2006

Pages: 1-9

ISBN: 978-3-540-35450-5

eISBN: 978-3-540-37721-4

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37721-4_1

Title of series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht

Number in series: 186

Abstract: 

The multitude and overlap of times is one of the somewhat unsettling yet characteristic features of modernity. Since the French Revolution, history has lost its exclusive meaning as measurement for the natural chronology of events, but took on a second meaning according to which periods in time are understood as eras and connected to specific sets of ideas.Henceforth, otherwise overcome ideas could stay on, times and histories can superimpose each other. Ernst Bloch has termed the effects of this overlap of times as ‘Ungleichzeitigkeit’ (non-synchronism). The present, according to Bloch, can reflect simultaneously various and often discrepant histories, pre-histories and futures. Pasts can persist, futures can linger, different layers of time can coexist concomitantly.

Harvard Citation style: Bast, J. and Dann, P. (2006) European Ungleichzeitigkeit: Introductory Remarks on a Binational Discussion about Unity in the European Union, in Dann, P. and Rynkowski, M. (eds.) The unity of the European constitution. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37721-4_1

APA Citation style: Bast, J., & Dann, P. (2006). European Ungleichzeitigkeit: Introductory Remarks on a Binational Discussion about Unity in the European Union. In Dann, P., & Rynkowski, M. (Eds.), The unity of the European constitution (pp. 1-9). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37721-4_1