Francois Hartog

Regimes of Historicity

Presentism and Experiences of Time
Übersetzung: Brown, Saskia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A classical historian confronts our crises of time, radically calling into question our relations to the past, present, and future.

Produktdetails

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780231163767
• ISBN-10: 0231163762
• Artikelnr.: 40952188

Autorenporträt

François Hartog is a professor at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales and holds the Chair of Ancient and Modern Historiography. He is the author of many works, including The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History and Croire en l'histoire. Saskia Brown is an experienced translator of French works in intellectual history, philosophy, legal theory, and art.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"In a book that should be required reading for anyone interested in history's role in contemporary society, Hartog shows how unexamined assumptions about the past shape our understandings of ourselves and our place in history." - Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Professor, UCLA

"François Hartog is perhaps the most important historian of historiography today... Regimes of Historicity should be required reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future writing of history." - American Historical Review