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Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV
Roland Racevskis
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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
What can we know about the understanding of time in a particular cultural or historical setting, and what can this knowledge tell us about how we think about time today? Time and Ways of Knowing: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette raises these questions by examining the scientific measurement and perception of time in seventeenth-century Europe and particularly in France. This widely researched book argues that the technological and social changes relating to time have a paradoxical impact in seventeenth-century France; they lead to more control of the individual, thus intruding upon the realm of the private, and at the same time ... Read more
What can we know about the understanding of time in a particular cultural or historical setting, and what can this knowledge tell us about how we think about time today? Time and Ways of Knowing: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette raises these questions by examining the scientific measurement and perception of time in seventeenth-century Europe and particularly in France. This widely researched book argues that the technological and social changes relating to time have a paradoxical impact in seventeenth-century France; they lead to more control of the individual, thus intruding upon the realm of the private, and at the same time ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481655
SKU
V9781611481655
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About Roland Racevskis
Roland Racevskis, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in French at the University of Iowa, is the author of Time and Ways of Knowing: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette (Bucknell University Press, 2003).
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