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The time of enlightenment : constructing the future in France, 1750 to year one / / William Max Nelson



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Autore: Nelson William Max <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The time of enlightenment : constructing the future in France, 1750 to year one / / William Max Nelson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of Toronto Press, 2020
Toronto, Ontario : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 194
Soggetto topico: Forecasting - History - France - Social aspects - 18th century
Enlightenment - Influence - France
Enlightenment - France
Soggetto non controllato: Enlightenment philosophy
European history
France
French Revolution
Year One
enlightenment
futurism
history of science
history of technology
history of time
ideas of the future
philosophy
Classificazione: CF 1250
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: A 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The time of enlightenment  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4875-4140-6
1-4875-3677-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996580168403316
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