Harvey endorses a becoming-oriented rather than being-oriented historical stance

Evidence

There are some who would have us return to classicism and others who seek to tread the path of the moderns. From the standpoint of the latter, every age is judged to attain ‘the fullness of its time, not by being but by becoming.’ I could not agree more. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2234

Categorization

• QUESTION: Harvey ends the book by endorsing ‘becoming’ over ‘being’ — worth checking how this positions him against Jameson’s arguably more diagnostic stance.
• XREF: connects to: Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical; Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts; A rational, historicist will grounded in objective necessity grounds philosophy (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical #corroborates (0.75)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts #expands (0.72)
• A rational, historicist will grounded in objective necessity grounds philosophy #corroborates (0.72)
• Treating modern order as a historical practice exposes its naturalness as an effect #exemplifies (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 537
• Systematizing the unsystematic can force a historical way of thinking #expands (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 894