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The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness
The Estrangement of the Past A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness
Author: Anthony Kemp
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 the arbiter of truth and all inherited knowledge is eternally viable, and no secrets lie hidden in t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195065459
ISBN-10: 019506545X
Publication Date: 11/22/1990
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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