Chronos: The West Confronts Time

by François Hartog

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"