Zeitschichten

What does not happen all at once, arising both diachronically and synchronically from completely heterogeneous life contexts? All conflicts, compromises, and formations of consensus can theoretically be traced back to tensions and fault lines that are contained in different layers of time and can be triggered by them. Reinhart Koselleck, a widely recognized expert in the theory of history, explores in the studies of this volume the question of what actually repeats in what is referred to as duration, long-term, medium-term, or short-term, in order to enable unique action. In doing so, he impressively reveals the theoretical trajectories of time that make the understanding and representation of history possible.