Embodiment, empathy, rituals. What to do with the past after the end of history

Corporação, empatia, rituais. O que fazer com o passado após o fim da história

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DOI:

10.46551/issn.2317-0875v27n2p.36-45

Keywords:

History, Embodiment, Empathy, Rituals

Abstract

Starting out from the assumptions that, in the first place, the academic discipline of “History” used to be grounded on the “historical world view”, as it had established itself around 1830 and that, secondly, it no longer prevails in the everyday of our present, this essay raises the question of what consequences the historians’ practice should possibly draw. With a focus on “embodiment” as a new mode of mediation between past and present, it discusses attitudes of empathy and work on rituals, trying to enter uncharted intellectual territory.

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Author Biography

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guerard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University [2020-2023] and Presidential Professor of Romance Literatures at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  E-mail: sepp@stanford.edu. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6364-7723.

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Published

2022-07-01

How to Cite

Gumbrecht, H. U. (2022). Embodiment, empathy, rituals. What to do with the past after the end of history: Corporação, empatia, rituais. O que fazer com o passado após o fim da história. Caminhos Da História, 27(2), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.46551/issn.2317-0875v27n2p.36-45

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2022): Theory of History and the New Humanities: contemporary debates

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