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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C32STZ6B
• ISBN13: 9780231203135
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"