The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One /
"In this manuscript, the author demonstrates how a new idea of the future came into being in eighteenth-century France with the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering. With the emergence of these practices, the future transformed from something that was largely believed t...
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| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
2021.
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Sumário:
- Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature
- Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality
- "The Explosion of Light": The Economic Order and the Scientific Revelation of the Future
- Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity
- The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the French Revolution.