The Time of Enlightenment : : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One / / William Max Nelson.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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