Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is understanding? / Françoise Dastur -- Autonomy within dependence on the self-understanding of man in classical Greek literature and philosophy (Homer, tragedy, Aristotle) / Arbogast Schmitt -- The singular historicity of literary understanding "still ending." / Samuel Weber -- Sense and history at the limits of making / Emil Angehrn -- Can art make anything at all? / Nicholas Davey -- Enabling limitations / Jan-Ivar Lindén -- Whose memory? Which future? / Jayne Svenungsson -- When memory becomes a prosthesis / Christoph Türcke -- Memory and temporal displacement / Bernhard Waldenfels.

History stands not only for a narrative or descriptive relation to the past, but also for an ongoing process in which we are involved on several levels: in ordinary life as well as in our epistemic endeavours, natural science and technology included. Historicity is thus not only an important question for historians, but for everyone interested in understanding what all our civilisation is about. The present volume sheds some light on different aspects of this ontological dependence. The first part deals with the historicity of understanding (Françoise Dastur, Arbogast Schmitt, Samuel Weber), the second with the limits of making (Emil Angehrn, Nicholas Davey, Jan-Ivar Lindén) and the third with the future of memory (Jayne Svenungsson, Christoph Türcke, Bernhard Waldenfels).

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