William Max Nelson

The Time of Enlightenment

Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One

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Produktbeschreibung

The Time of Enlightenment investigates how a new idea of the future emerged with the development of modern practices in France from 1750 to Year One, the first year of the Republican calendar that marked the Revolutionary caesura in time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487507701
• ISBN-10: 1487507704
• Artikelnr.: 60597957

Autorenporträt

William Max Nelson is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto and a co-editor of The French Revolution in Global Perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature
2. Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality
3. "The Explosion of Light": The Economic Order and the Scientific
Revelation of the Future
4. Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity
5. The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the
French Revolution
Conclusion: Colonizing the Future
Notes
Index