The space of experience does not precisely determine a person's horizon of expectation.
The space of experience and the horizon of expectation mutually condition each other.
It is also the moment framed by the agent's space of experience and horizon of expectation.
Action, taken in the present, preserves the space of experience in a dialectical tension with the horizon of expectation.
The present moment of historical time in which action takes place stands at the intersection of what Reinhart Koselleck calls the space of experience and the horizon of expectation.
The space of experience is made up of past natural or cultural events that a person remembers or is influenced by in the present.
Nonetheless, in considering a particular project, a person may be prompted to learn about some part of the past previously outside his or her space of experience.
The horizon of expectation, on the other hand, is the unfolding of the array of projects that one can now undertake, of paths that one can now begin to explore on the basis of this space of experience.
The notion of an elective, fun, liminoid space of experience found intellectual purchase in the early 'nineties, particularly within studies of tourism (Crang, 2005), whilst others reject both terms in favour of concepts to better convey heterogeneity and complexity, such as heterotopia (St John, 2001).
Furthermore, it is not the case that our situatedness within history is a limiting condition only: rather, as the space of human experience and reason, it opens up the world to us in the first place.
