"What Time is it There? "is a history of worlds that encounter each
other without ever meeting. The title comes from a film by Tsai
Ming-liang which explores the desire to conquer the barriers of
space and time by abolishing time differences and inventing
substitutes for a coveted elsewhere. This preoccupation with other
worlds and consciousness of the differences that separate them have
become a persistent theme of our world today, shaped as it has been
by the complex flows of people, images and ideas that we have come
to associate with the term 'globalization'. But the dismantling of
closed worlds that gradually opened cultures and peoples to one
another is by no means new.
In this remarkable book, Serge Gruzinski takes us back to the
early modern period and examines two testimonies that require us to
navigate between America and the Islamic world long before the
images of 9/11 had entered our heads. One is a chronicle of the New
World compiled in Istanbul in 1580, the other is a Repertory of the
Times written in Mexico in 1606, which dwells at length on the
Empire of the Turks. Why and how did the Turks come to know so much
about America, and what made readers in Mexico ask questions about
the Ottomans?
Gruzinski conducts a dialogue between these two texts that
emphasizes the singularities of the two visions, that of Islam and
that of America, each already keeping a watchful eye on the other
and yet irreducibly different, with this question always in the
background: what did it mean to 'think the world' at the dawn of
modern times?
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