عنوان

The birth of the past /

شابک

1421402785

شابک

9781421402789

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The birth of the past /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvi, 316 pages,

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Antiquity -- Christianity -- Renaissance -- Enlightenment

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

From the publisher. How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in The Birth of the Past, his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling things taken out of context as "anachronisms." Schiffman shows how this tendency did not always exist, and how the past as such was born of the perceived difference between past and present. Schiffman takes readers on a grand tour of historical thinking from antiquity to modernity. He shows how ancient historians could not distinguish between past and present because they conceived of multiple pasts. Christian theologians coalesced these multiple pasts into a single temporal space where past merged with present and future. Renaissance humanists began to disentangle these temporal states in their desire to resurrect classical culture, creating a "living past." French enlighteners killed off this living past when they engendered a form of social scientific thinking that measured the relations between historical entities, thus sustaining the distance between past and present and relegating each culture to its own distinctive context. Including a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources -- ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science -- to uncover the very meaning of the past and its relationship to the present

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization, Western

موضوع مستند نشده

Historiography-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Historiography-- Western countries

موضوع مستند نشده

History-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Western countries, Intellectual life

بدون عنوان

0

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Schiffman, Zachary Sayre

تاريخ عمليات

20111220000746.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y