As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and
eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the
twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven
into the present? In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges
from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial
turning points in our relationship to time. François Hartog
considers the genealogy of Western temporalities, examining the
orders of time and their divisions into epochs. Beginning with how
the ancient Greeks understood time, Chronos explores the fashioning
of a Christian time in the early centuries of the Catholic Church.
Christianity’s hegemony over time reigned over Europe and beyond,
only to ebb as modern time—presided over by the notion of
relentless progress—set out on its march toward the future.
Hartog emphasizes the deep uncertainties the world now faces as we
reckon with the arrival and significance of the Anthropocene age.
Humanity has become capable of altering the climate, triggering in
mere life spans changes that once took place across geological
epochs. In this threatening new age, which has challenged all
existing temporal constructions, what will become of the old ways
of understanding time? Intertwining reflections on intellectual
history and historiography with critiques of contemporary
presentism and apocalypticism, Chronos brings depth and erudition
to debates over the nature of the era we are living through and
offers keen insight into the experience of historical time.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
François Hartog
|
| Translators: |
Samuel Ross Gilbert
|
| Pages: |
312 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20313-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-231-20313-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780231203135 |
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