Hartog Chronos

The West Confronts Time
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55488-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning points in our relationship to time. François Hartog considers the genealogy of Western temporalities, examining the order of times and the divisions of time into epochs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartog, François

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ross Gilbert, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Presentism: Stopgap or New State?
Introduction: Orders of Time and Regimes of Historicity
Orders of Time 1
1. Making History: Sahlins's Islands
2. From Odysseus's Tears to Augustine's Meditations
3. Chateaubriand, Between Old and New Regimes of Historicity
Orders of Time 2
4. Memory, History, and the Present
5. Heritage and the Present
Our Doubly Indebted Present: The Reign of Presentism
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

François Hartog is a professor emeritus at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His books in English include Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time (Columbia, 2015) and The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History (1988).

S. R. Gilbert is a translator living in San Francisco.