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 belie...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
2021.
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