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Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time

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Description for Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time paperback. Translator(s): Brown, Saskia. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's regimes of historicity, or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins's concept of heroic history. He tracks changing perspectives on time in Chateaubriand's Historical Essay and Travels in America and sets them alongside other writings from the French Revolution. He revisits the insights of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163774
SKU
9780231163774
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About François Hartog
Francois Hartog is a professor at the Ecole 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time
Since his classic Mirror of Herodotus, Francois Hartog has emerged as the most significant theorist of history and chronicler of our changing relationship to our own past that France has produced. In this series of meditative chapters, he takes us from the Greeks to the present once more, emphasizing how the theory of history must move from diagnosing the modern ... Read more

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