In recent historiography, the separation of historical from natural time, layers of time, proper times ("Eigenzeiten"), temporalization, simultaneity of the non-simultaneous form the constitutive terminology. In view of this, works by Koselleck, Lepenies, Luhmann and Holscher as well as their predecessors Herder, Pinder, Lovejoy and Braudel are examined. The critique demonstrates the confusion of directed time and progress, of progress and history,...