What’s the time? About the pertinence to speak of historical time
Abstract This paper wants to suggest a defininition of the philosophy of history as a determination of historical time, or at the question about what is the present time. I draw on Norbert Elias’ sociological conception of time, which aims at desontologizing time and considering it as an instrument which humans use for organizing their actions. I suggest that historical time, and philosophy of history, is also a conceptual instrument for organizing and understanding the complexity of human interactions in Modernity. This means that there is a double sensitivity for time in modern society: as consciousness of qualitative time and as technically measured time. Finally, I argue that Heidegger’s and Benjamin’s are the most adequate theories in the Xxth century for approaching a definition of historical time
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Gómez Ramos, A. (2012). What’s the time? About the pertinence to speak of historical time. Azafea: Revista De Filosofía, 13, 27–39. https://doi.org/10.14201/8671
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