TY - BOOK AU - Truper,Henning AU - Chakrabarty,Dipesh AU - Subrahmanyam,Sanjay TI - Historical teleologies in the modern world T2 - Europe's legacy in the modern world SN - 9789388002424 (Pbk) AV - D16.9 .H5325 2015 U1 - 901 T77H 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - European history KW - bicssc KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Historiography KW - Teleology KW - History, Modern KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Intellectual life KW - HISTORY KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 KW - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 KW - Europe KW - Modern KW - 20th Century KW - 19th Century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Two genealogies of historical teleology -- Introduction: Teleology and history : nineteenth-century fortunes of an Enlightenment project / Henning Trüper (EHESS-CRH, Paris) with Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles) -- The politics of eschatology : a short reading of the long view / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- II. Botched vanishing acts : on the difficulties of making teleology disappear -- The "vocation of man"/"Die Bestimmung des Menschen" : a teleological concept of the German Enlightenment and its aftermath in the nineteenth century / Philip Ajouri (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany) -- Earth history and the order of society : William Buckland, the French connection, and the conundrum of teleology / Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne, Switzerland) -- After Darwin : teleology in German philosophical anthropology / Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University London, UK) -- III. Befriending teleology : writings histories with ends -- Save their souls : historical teleology goes to sea in nineteenth-century Europe / Henning Trüper (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France) -- Reading history in colonial India : three nineteenth-century narratives and their teleologies / Siddharth Satpathy (University of Hyderabad, India) -- A gift of providence : destiny as national history in colonial India / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- IV. Teleology in the revolutionary polis -- The "democracy of blood" : the colours of racial fusion in nineteenth-century Spanish America / Francisco A. Ortega (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) -- Between context and telos : reviewing the structures of international law / Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) -- Marxism and the idea of revolution : the messianic moment in Marx / Etienne balibar (Université Paris 8, France/Columbia University, USA) -- V. Translating futures : eschatology, history and the individual -- Religious teleologies and violence in the United States : the case of John Brown / Carola Dietze (University of Giessen, Germany) -- "But was I really primed?" : Gershom Scholem's Zionist project / Gabriel Piterberg (University of California, Los Angeles) -- Catching up to oneself : Islam and the representation of humanity / Faisal Devji (Oxford University, UK) -- VI. Historical futures without direction? -- Autonomy in history : teleology in nineteenth-century European social and political thought / Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) -- The faces of modernity : Crisis, Kairos, Chronos : Koselleck versus Hegel / Bo Stråth (University of Helsinki, Finland) ER -