The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One - Couverture rigide

Nelson, William Max

 
9781487507701: The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1487507704 ISBN 13 : 9781487507701
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

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 the present.


The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.

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À propos de l?auteur

William Max Nelson is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto and a co-editor of The French Revolution in Global Perspective.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1487507704
ISBN 13 
9781487507701
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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