EAN: 9780691181653

TIME AND POWER - CHRISTOPHER CLARK GEBUNDEN

A book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time This
groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by
different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from
German history - Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia  Frederick the Great  Otto von
Bismarck  and Adolf Hitler - to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical
actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time. Inspired by the insights of
Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog  two pioneers of the temporal turn in historiography 
Clark shows how Friedrich Wilhelm rejected the notion of continuity with the past  believing
instead that a sovereign must liberate the state from the entanglements of tradition to choose
freely among different possible futures. He demonstrates how Frederick the Great abandoned this
paradigm for a neoclassical vision of history in which sovereign and state transcend time
altogether  and how Bismarck believed that the statesman's duty was to preserve the timeless
permanence of the state amid the torrent of historical change. Clark describes how Hitler did
not seek to revolutionize history like Stalin and Mussolini  but instead sought to evade
history altogether  emphasizing timeless racial archetypes and a prophetically foretold future.
legantly written and boldly innovative  Time and Power takes readers from the Thirty Years' War
to the fall of the Third Reich  revealing the connection between political power and the
distinct temporalities of the leaders who wield it.

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