The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time - Couverture souple

Wilcox, Donald J. J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226897222 ISBN 13 : 9780226897226

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

The Measure of Times Past In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to ... Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.

Biographie de l'auteur :

David J. Wilcox is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226897222
• ISBN 13: 9780226897226
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302