The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One

A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in...

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Autor principal: William Max Nelson
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Publicado: University of Toronto Press 2021
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