Die Geschichte des Kommenden. Zur Historizität der Zukunft im Anschluss an Luhmann und Foucault // [The History of What is to Come. On the Historicity of the Future in the Aftermath of Luhmann and Foucault]

This article raises the question: to what extent does future itself have a history? In reviewing thetheories of Niklas Luhmann and Michel Foucault, modal time (past, present, future) will be deontologizedand attributed to the operations of an observer. Luhmann’s discussion of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Inner Time Consciousness and Michel Foucault’s critical appraisal of Immanuel Kant’s Transcendental Idealism provide arguments for a temporalization of time. Hence the historicalsemantics and political technologies involved in the construction of future horizons become of major interest.