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Moved by the past : discontinuity and historical mutation / Eelco Runia.

Van Pelt Library D16.8 .R895 2014
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xv, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Contents:
  • Burying the dead, creating the past
  • "Forget about it"
  • Presence
  • Spots of time
  • Thirsting for deeds: Schiller and the historical sublime
  • Into cleanness leaping: the vertiginous urge to commit history
  • Inventing the new from the old
  • Crossing the wires in the pleasure machine
  • Our own best enemy: how humans energize their evolution.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780231168205
  • 0231168209
OCLC:
863199640

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