The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time

by Donald J. Wilcox and Wilcox, Donald J. Wilcox, Donald J.

Book Overview

In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226897214
• ISBN13: 9780226897219
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.