{"product_id":"regimes-of-historicity-presentism-and-experiences-of-time-9780231163774","title":"Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrançois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's \"regimes of historicity,\" or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins's concept of \"heroic history.\" He tracks changing perspectives on time in Chateaubriand's \u003ci\u003eHistorical Essay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTravels in America\u003c\/i\u003e and sets them alongside other writings from the French Revolution. He revisits the insights of the French Annales School and situates Pierre Nora's \u003ci\u003eRealms of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e within a history of heritage and today's presentism, from which he addresses Jonas's notion of our responsibility for the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur presentist present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced very differently depending on the position we occupy in society. We are caught up in global movement and accelerated flows, or else condemned to the life of casual workers, living from hand to mouth in a stagnant present, with no recognized past, and no real future either (since the temporality of plans and projects is inaccessible). The present is therefore experienced as emancipation or enclosure, and the perspective of the future is no longer reassuring, since it is perceived not as a promise, but as a threat. Hartog's resonant readings show us how the motor of history(-writing) has stalled and help us understand the contradictory qualities of our contemporary presentist relation to time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFran?ois Hartog is a professor at the ?cole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales and holds the Chair of Ancient and Modern Historiography. He is the author of many works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCroire en l'histoire\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaskia Brown is an experienced translator of French works in intellectual history, philosophy, legal theory, and art.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844165636370,"sku":"9780231163774","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a9b56f3-bf2f-4dd5-bcba-0bde2f202a2f.jpg?v=1737313008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/regimes-of-historicity-presentism-and-experiences-of-time-9780231163774","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}