The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness by Anthony Kemp
The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness

Anthony Kemp

The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness

Anthony Kemp

228 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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In this strikingly bold and original work, Kemp argues that the Western idea of time reversed itself between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century from a static and syncretic image of a temporal world in which all time is uniform, the past is ...

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