Chronos: The West Confronts Time

by François Hartog

Book Overview

As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven into the present? In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning points in our relationship to time.

Fran ois Hartog considers the genealogy of Western temporalities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231203128
• ISBN13: 9780231203128
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"