Zukunft – Zukunftswissen – Zukunftsästhetik

Historical narrative was one of the most prominent narrative forms in the 19th century. But it was always also future-oriented. In this volume, this flipside of addressing the past is examined from a historical and systematic perspective using the following guiding questions: How can reflections on the future be grasped analytically and conceptually in genres that are not programmatically committed to the future? How is knowledge of the future organised and aesthetically structured? How does such implicit aesthetic problematisation of the future relate to explicit models of the future in emerging science fiction? With contributions by Urs Büttner | Felix Christen | Florian Kappeler | Fabian Lampart | Christian Meierhofer | Yashar Mohagheghi | Nathalie Moser | Barry Murnane | Urte Stobbe | Stefan Willer | Evi Zemanek