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28 Reinhart Koselleck, Erfahrungswandel und Methodenwechsel: Eine historisch-anthropologische Skizze', in: Theorie der Geschichte, 1988, p. 48.

Chapter 2 From the Future to the Extended Present

1 Hans Blumenberg, Lebenszeit und Weltzeit, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986, p. 223.

2 Ibid., p. 225.

3 Ibid., pp. 239–40.

4 Ibid., p. 242.

5 An increase in productivity due to technological improvements can be traced in Western political economies from roughly 1880 on. Nathan Rosenberg, Perspectives on Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

8 W. C. Clark and R. E. Munn (eds), Sustainable Development of the Biosphere, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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One consequence of the shift from history in natural sui generis time to the temporality of systems is that the future can no longer be taken for granted. This disappearance of the future has nothing to do with pessimism. It is a consequence of the greater awareness of the fact that social systems create their own time and that the idea of a future is only meaningful to the extent the present and the future can be linked through some (relative) invariance and some sequence.

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Chapter 3 Cronos's Fear of the New Age

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Chapter 4 Politics of Time

1 Eviatar Zerubavel, The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, New York: Free Press, 1985.

2 Massimo Cacciari, 'Erinnerung an Karneval', in: Zeit ohne

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Chapter 5 The Longing for the Moment

1 Niklas Luhmann, 'Die Knappheit der Zeit und die Vordringlichkeit des Befristeten', Verwaltung, vol. I (1968), p. 13; 'Weltzeit und Systemgeschichte', in: Soziologische

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