The time of enlightenment constructing the future in France, 1750 to year one
"In this manuscript, the author demonstrates how a new idea of the future came into being in eighteenth-century France with the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering. With the emergence of these practices, the future transformed from something that was largely belie...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46960211*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature
- Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality
- "The Explosion of Light": The Economic Order and the Scientific Revelation of the Future
- Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity
- The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the French Revolution.
