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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Главный автор: Nelson, William Max, 1976- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
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Оглавление:
  • 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.