Time and History in Denis Pétau : Philosophy, Science, and Religion in Early Modern France.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zachhuber, Johannes.

Series:

Chronoi Series

Chronoi Series ; v.17

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management is a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi. The center is dedicated to the investigation of time and time-related subjects such as time awareness, time management, time perception, and temporality from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Subjective time as social reality

1.2 Denis Pétau and his theory of social time

1.3 Pétau and early modern historiography

1.4 The scope of this study

2 Denis Pétau: A scholar between tradition and modernity

2.1 Life

2.2 Works

3 De doctrina temporum in the context of early modern chronology

3.1 Joseph Scaliger and scientific chronology

3.2 Pétau's De doctrina temporum

4 Pétau's theory of time

4.1 The definition of time

4.2 The Aristotelian background

4.2.1 One time or many?

4.2.2 Material and formal time

4.3 Subjective time as social time

4.4 A new science

4.5 Conclusion

5.4 Chronology, time, and the &lt

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6 Social time as religious time

7 Time and God

8 Conclusion

Bibliography

Works by Denis Pétau (Dionysius Petavius)

Ancient texts (prior to 1400)

Modern literature (from 1400)

General Index

Index of Passages.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-222334-9

9783112223345

OCLC:

1559694017