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Titel:	Temporal structures of the heroic
Körperschaft:	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Sonderforschungsbereich 948 "Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen" (Mitwirkender)
Ausgabe:	Version 1.0, published 5 July 2022
Veröffentlicht:	Freiburg : Universität, 2023
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk:	Compendium heroicum. das Online-Lexikon des Sonderforschungsbereichs 948 „Helden – Heroisierungen – Heroismen“
Schlagworte:	Analogie Held Heldenverehrung Heroismus Langzeit Heroisierung Periodisierung Präfiguration Temporalität Tradition Zeit

Zusammenfassung:	Abstract: Heroes and heroines, heroizations and heroisms are neither timeless nor can they be explained solely in terms of the present. The reference to the past and also to the future is constitutive of the heroic – it is a temporal phenomenon. The study of heroic figures, heroizations and heroisms must therefore also include those temporal structures that are typical of the heroic and distinguish them from other social and cultural phenomena. In essence, three temporal structures can be identified that characterise the heroic in a particular way:<br><br>Firstly, the heroic is a persistent phenomenon of the longue durée. The existence of the heroic as well as of heroic behavioural ideals was apparently never fundamentally called into question in Europe since antiquity, at least until the beginning of the 20th century.<br><br>Secondly, the underlying heroisms and heroization processes always require reference to the past, to traditions and to prefigurations. A hero or heroine does not suddenly appear out of nowhere. Heroic figures cannot be understood from a solely synchronic perspective, and their adoration and representation cannot be achieved without role models.<br><br>These diachronic relationships between the past, the present and the future are, thirdly, neither to be understood as a linear sequence nor as a teleological development. The notion of temporal discontinuities is also of limited help in understanding heroic phenomena. The heroic is characterised less by ruptures and sudden realignments than by a recombination of older and more recent elements of meaning, in which the earlier and the later are each placed in a new relationship. Above all, the interactions between pre- and postfigurations, as well as the plurality and multi-layeredness of various overlapping temporal references, is characteristic of heroic phenomena

Zusammenfassung:

Abstract: Heroes and heroines, heroizations and heroisms are neither timeless nor can they be explained solely in terms of the present. The reference to the past and also to the future is constitutive of the heroic – it is a temporal phenomenon. The study of heroic figures, heroizations and heroisms must therefore also include those temporal structures that are typical of the heroic and distinguish them from other social and cultural phenomena. In essence, three temporal structures can be identified that characterise the heroic in a particular way: Firstly, the heroic is a persistent phenomenon of the longue durée. The existence of the heroic as well as of heroic behavioural ideals was apparently never fundamentally called into question in Europe since antiquity, at least until the beginning of the 20th century. Secondly, the underlying heroisms and heroization processes always require reference to the past, to traditions and to prefigurations. A hero or heroine does not suddenly appear out of nowhere. Heroic figures cannot be understood from a solely synchronic perspective, and their adoration and representation cannot be achieved without role models. These diachronic relationships between the past, the present and the future are, thirdly, neither to be understood as a linear sequence nor as a teleological development. The notion of temporal discontinuities is also of limited help in understanding heroic phenomena. The heroic is characterised less by ruptures and sudden realignments than by a recombination of older and more recent elements of meaning, in which the earlier and the later are each placed in a new relationship. Above all, the interactions between pre- and postfigurations, as well as the plurality and multi-layeredness of various overlapping temporal references, is characteristic of heroic phenomena

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