The Discovery of Time Author:Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield "It is not to religion...nor is it to natural science that the Toulmins look for the burgeoning of historical awareness, but rather to the students of men and affairs: to humanist critics of papal claims, notably Nicolas of Cusa and Lorenzo Valla; to th 17th-century ideas of progress and the battle between the ancients and moderns; to the socia... more »l criticism and philosophy of the Enlightment...
the authors describe this book as a "history of History." It is a discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and human society.... The excellence of The Discovery of Time is unquestionable. It will perhaps be regarded as a classic.... I know of few words whose scholarship is so far reaching. And the style and power of the authors are most impressive." -- Martin Leobwitz« less