Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future.

Evidence

Modern history clearly links time past to time present, and orients its narratives to the future. But present experience is also, as Koselleck points out, a reencounter with what was once imagined as the future. The disappointment or delight this may occasion therefore prompts a reorientation to the past that is more complex than the notion of “invented tradition” allows. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068

Categorization

• DEFINE: Koselleck’s simultaneity concept: the present is a reencounter with an erstwhile imagined future, complicating ‘invented tradition.’
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this ‘reorientation to the past’ show up concretely in religious revival movements or legal reform projects?
• XREF: connects to: The For-itself retroactively constitutes the past from which it appears born — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 479; An unrealized future persists as an ideal co-presence haunting the present. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 492; A person’s varied past selves all exist in the mode of having been — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 418 (+12 more)