ABSTRACT
Much of the study of history in the time is concerned with the influence of the material world on human behavior, with the pre-human and the post-human, with objects, and with super-human forces. Pastness is all the more a quality of historical knowledge of such things as Neolithic towns in Anatolia, events in other galaxies, the distribution of books from the first European presses, or the political and social turbulence of the 1960s. The knowledge/current and known/past scheme is a hard problem for all theories of historical knowledge. A great part of the history of the historical theory has been devoted to solving, or dissolving, the challenges of the experience of the past through epistemology and methodology. The time of history corrects any belief in perfect or quasi-messianic justice, but without the time of jurisdiction we lose hold of the moral obligations to do justice and to correct injustice.
