The future, time, and history each have their own history and a shared question.

Evidence

Yes, if we are to believe The Future of Hegel. And also time, time itself would have a history. And history then, history would also have a history, a singular history setting the stage for the protagonists of a philosophical gigantomachia already engaged over questions like: ‘What is history?’, ‘What is time’, ‘What is the future?’, ‘What is the authority of ‘What is …’ in all of these questions?’, ‘And how may we reflect on the being of this ‘is’ or on the present tense working here?’, etc. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 40

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

  • DEFINE: Frames the inquiry as a meta-question: the ‘is’ or present tense exercising within every question about future, time, and history.

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