The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One /

The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One /

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"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 belie...

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Main Author: Nelson, William Max, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophy, French > 18th century.
Future, The > Philosophy.
Future, The > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Forecasting > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > France > Influence.
Enlightenment > France.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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