Volume 60, Issue 4, Fall 2016
Special Topic: History, Today
Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Peter Hanly
Pages 827-838
History Improvised
A Short Dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
In this text, a dialogue about the difficult task of seizing the sense of history today is presented. The point of departure is the difficulty of the times to begin and the necessity to rethink the difference between historiography and historicity, and further between events, the event and the advent. The dialogue proposes to revisit the meaning of beginning from out the experience of improvisation and to reflect upon the possibility of developing improvisation as a sense of history.