ABSTRACT
In the footsteps of his eighteenth-century predecessors, Koselleck articulates time as progress. Acceleration is one of its main features, by which the experience of the past disappears ever faster from the present. To me this is due to the fact that his time is empty and therefore not hampered by burdensome matters. Kant underlines its emptiness by perceiving it as an Anschauungsform, being a condition for experience, not an experience itself. According to him, time is a continuous repetition of “nows”, without differing in content from one another. As a result, things happen in time, not through time. This implies a pragmatist perception of history (differing from Brandom’s philosophical one). The past is merely a box in which we can freely grasp examples from which we can learn (Historia Magistra Vitae).
