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The Measure of Times Past (Paperback, New edition)
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The Measure of Times Past (Paperback, New edition)
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In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an
approach to narrative and history consistent with the
discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how
our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of
continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our
conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute
time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the
problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of
facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of
relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our
system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical
new critique of historical objectivity.
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