03612oam 2200697 450 99658016840331620230731195056.01-4875-4140-61-4875-3677-110.3138/9781487536770(CKB)4100000011675133(DE-B1597)576351(DE-B1597)9781487536770(MiAaPQ)EBC6475877(OCoLC)1197790124(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95683(EXLCZ)99410000001167513320210702d2021 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe time of enlightenment constructing the future in France, 1750 to year one /William Max NelsonUniversity of Toronto Press2020Toronto, Ontario :University of Toronto Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (240 p.)Includes index.1-4875-0770-4 1-4875-2531-1 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature --2 Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality --3 “The Explosion of Light”: The Economic Order and the Scientific Revelation of the Future --4 Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity --5 The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the French Revolution --Conclusion: Colonizing the Future --Notes --IndexA new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present. The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.ForecastingHistoryFranceSocial aspects18th centuryEnlightenmentInfluenceFranceEnlightenmentFranceEnlightenment philosophy.European history.France.French Revolution.Year One.enlightenment.futurism.history of science.history of technology.history of time.ideas of the future.philosophy.ForecastingHistorySocial aspectsEnlightenmentInfluenceEnlightenment194CF 1250rvkNelson William Max1976-1207319MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK996580168403316The time of enlightenment2904170UNISA