Francois Hartog

Chronos

The West Confronts Time
Übersetzer: Ross Gilbert, Samuel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780231203135
• ISBN-10: 0231203136
• Artikelnr.: 68101616

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

To Readers of the English Edition
Preface: The Undeducible Present
Introduction: From the Greeks to the Christians
1. The Christian Regime of Historicity: Chronos Between Kairos and Krisis
2. The Christian Order of Time and Its Spread
3. Negotiating with Chronos
4. Dissonance and Fissures
5. In the Thrall of Chronos
6. Chronos Destituted, Chronos Restored
Conclusion: The Anthropocene and History
Notes
Index