Der Riss in der Zeit. Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik

Throughout his life, Reinhart Koselleck has outlined his theory of historical knowledge in ever new attempts. History happens in time. But how? As progress in an ascending line? Or as a cycle in the eternal return of the same? Koselleck has added a third concept to these two familiar ideas: It is not history that repeats itself, but the conditions of possible histories. Only when we know what repeats itself do we recognise the surprisingly new: the crack in time.

On this occasion, the historian Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, who researches and teaches at Berkeley, has reconstructed Koselleck's intellectual biography and his unwritten book on the basis of previously unpublished material from his estate: his Historik.