In History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21^st Century, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon offers a groundbreaking examination of the historical sensibility centered on unprecedented change that has coalesced since the mid-twentieth century. Simon provides a compelling analysis of this new sensibility and deftly distinguishes it from the progressive philosophies of history that had reigned prior to its emergence. He also develops a crucial theoretical apparatus for registering the unprecedented in both historical ontology and historiographical theory. Chief here is his theory of “history as a disrupted singular,” which marks the unprecedented's disruption of any ontologically stable historical subject and reveals the future and the past to be not our own but the domains of different and alien subject formations. From this philosophical-historical foundation, Simon also provides a novel theorization of historical writing and historical experience that accounts for the overlapping registers of presence and absence that define our encounters with the past. Along with these innovations, Simon's book reorients former assumptions about historical change, historical subjectivity, and historical experience while revealing the extent to which the unprecedented-focused historical outlook dominates our relationship with the future. It also raises questions (directly and indirectly) about politics, continuity, and rupture that theorists of history must embrace.

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奇怪的未来，新的主题

在历史中前所未有的变化的时代：一个理论的21^日世纪, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon 对历史敏感性进行了开创性的研究，重点是自 20 世纪中叶以来发生的前所未有的变化。西蒙对这种新的敏感性进行了令人信服的分析，并巧妙地将其与在其出现之前统治的进步历史哲学区分开来。他还开发了一种重要的理论工具，用于记录历史本体论和史学理论中前所未有的事物。这里最主要的是他的“历史作为一个被破坏的单一体”的理论，它标志着任何本体论稳定的历史主体的前所未有的破坏，并揭示了未来和过去不是我们自己的，而是不同的和异类的主体结构的领域。从这个哲学历史基础，西蒙还提供了一种关于历史写作和历史经验的新颖理论，解释了定义我们与过去相遇的在场和不在场的重叠记录。除了这些创新之外，西蒙的书重新定位了先前关于历史变迁、历史主体性和历史经验的假设，同时揭示了前所未有的聚焦历史观在多大程度上主导了我们与未来的关系。它还提出了历史理论家必须接受的关于政治、连续性和断裂的问题（直接和间接）。历史主体性和历史经验，同时揭示了史无前例的历史观在多大程度上主导了我们与未来的关系。它还提出了历史理论家必须接受的关于政治、连续性和断裂的问题（直接和间接）。历史主体性和历史经验，同时揭示了史无前例的历史观在多大程度上主导了我们与未来的关系。它还提出了历史理论家必须接受的关于政治、连续性和断裂的问题（直接和间接）。