Time of Enlightenment

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Making Time Different: Historical Change and the Laws of Nature

2. Living the Future: Ideas of Progress and Uncanny Temporality

3. "The Explosion of Light": The Economic Order and the Scientific Revelation of the Future

4. Generating Time: Buffon and the Biological Instruments of Futurity

5. The Time of Regeneration: Renewal, Rupture, and Beginning Anew in the French Revolution

Conclusion: Colonizing the Future

Notes

Index

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• Questões éticas: avanços científicos e tecnológicos
• Filosofia ocidental, desde ~ 1900
• Revolução Francesa
• Filosofia da Ciência
• Impacto da ciência e da tecnologia na sociedade
• Bioética
• Filosofia ocidental: Iluminismo

philosophy; European history; Year One; enlightenment; France; history of science; Enlightenment philosophy; ideas of the future; futurism; history of technology; history of time; French Revolution