In his meticulously researched and conceptually innovative book, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon aims to capture the historical sensibility emergent during the postwar period broadly conceived, spanning from the 1940s to our present moment. Attending particularly to the debates concerning ecological and technological outlooks, Simon theorizes that our historical horizon is increasingly shaped by the expectations of an unprecedented event that challenges the sustainability of the human subject as known today. Arguing that the concept of unprecedented change can best be explained against the backdrop of a modern processual temporal configuration originating in the eighteenth century, Simon likewise probes the same concept to illuminate a distinct relationship with the past. Elaborating on the main ideas of the book, the paper will interrogate critically Simon’s assertion whereby the novel postwar temporality is inherently dystopian, and will negotiate Simon’s engagement with presentism, which he questions as an inaccurate representation of our current regime of historicity.

在 Zoltán Boldizsár Simon 精心研究和概念创新的书中，他旨在捕捉从 1940 年代到现在的广泛构思的战后时期涌现的历史敏感性。西蒙特别关注有关生态和技术前景的辩论，他提出理论认为，我们的历史视野越来越多地受到对前所未有的事件的期望的影响，这些事件挑战了当今已知的人类主体的可持续性。西蒙认为，在起源于 18 世纪的现代过程时间配置的背景下，可以最好地解释史无前例的变化概念，他同样探索了相​​同的概念，以阐明与过去的独特关系。阐述本书的主要思想，