Ebook: Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time

François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Our presentist present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced very differently depending on the position we occupy in society. Hartog shows us how the motor of history(-writing) has stalled and help us understand the contradictory qualities of our contemporary presentist relation to time.

A classical historian confronts our crises of time, radically calling into question our relations to the past, present, and future.