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

By Anthony Kemp

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506545X
• ISBN13: 9780195065459
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.9" x 5.8"