Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

by Peter Fritzsche

Book Overview

In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow.

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, contemporaries saw themselves as occupants of an utterly new period. Increasingly disconnected from an irretrievable past,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674045874
• ISBN13: 9780674045873
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"