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epochal threshold: a standalone construct

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Historiography

a transition between historical epochs that can be identified only in retrospect, as a reoccupation of a system of questions and answers rather than a single dated event.

In historiography, epochal threshold refers to a transition between historical epochs that can be identified only in retrospect, as a reoccupation of a system of questions and answers rather than a single dated event. This meaning comes from Blumenberg (1983) in Legitimacy of the Modern Age.[1]

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References

Blumenberg, H. (1983). Legitimacy of the Modern Age. MIT Press. ISBN 9780585364056

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