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Deep Time - A Literary History (Hardcover)
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Deep Time - A Literary History (Hardcover)
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How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by
philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman
argues that the concept of "deep time"-most often associated with
geological epochs-began as a metaphorical language used by
philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the
written record. Their ideas about "the abyss of time" created a way
to think about the prehistoric before it was possible to assign
dates to the fossil record. Heringman, examining stories about the
deep past by visionary thinkers ranging from William Blake to
Charles Darwin, challenges the conventional wisdom that the idea of
deep time came forth fully formed from the modern science of
geology. Instead, he argues, it has a rich imaginative history.
Heringman considers Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster,
naturalists on James Cook's second voyage around the world, who,
inspired by encounters with Pacific islanders, connected the scale
of geological time to human origins and cultural evolution;
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who drew on travel
narrative, antiquarian works, and his own fieldwork to lay out the
first modern geological timescale; Blake and Johann Gottfried
Herder, who used the language of fossils and artifacts to promote
ancient ballads and "prehistoric song"; and Darwin's exploration of
the reciprocal effects of geological and human time. Deep time,
Heringman shows, has figural and imaginative dimensions beyond its
geological meaning.
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