Abstract:
In this paper we will consider some of the criticisms that the thesis of historical time as a product of Modernity has received, linked to the expectation of a (better) future that awaits to come. We are interested in addressing two lines of argument in this paper. The first is to point out that the assumption of the future as the time of hope (in a political key, not a religious one) has entered into crisis because of the persistence of forms of the past that refuse to pass. The second is to underline the need to redefine time in such a way that it not only involves social time in a human key, but also takes into account the human species as a determining factor of what happens to the rest of the beings on the planet. What we want to point out is, on the one hand, that the theses that question the traditional idea of time are right in stating that this idea of time is no longer sustained, although we will point out some differences. On the other hand, we want to mark the persistence of certain forms of time that resist being obsolete and obstruct the imagination of new futures.
Keywords:
History; Time; Kant; Future; Anacronism