Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV

Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0838755194
ISBN-13 : 9780838755198
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Book Synopsis Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV by : Roland Racevskis

Download or read book Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV written by Roland Racevskis and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the measurement and understanding of time in seventeenth-century Europe, particularly in France. Close readings of literary representations of time in Moliere, Mme de Sevigne, and Mmd de Lafayette are contextualized with historical studies of court life under Louis XIV, the restructuring of the early modern French postal system, and the emergencce of new practices of periodical publication, respectively. An epistemological backdrop for these historical and literary studies is provided by an introductory analysis of developments in the science of time measurement under Louis XIV. A concluding section places questions of human temporality in the contemporary context of global environmental concerns.


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