Revolutionary Time and Regeneration

Beginning in 1789 and escalating in intensity into at least 1793, a new temporal schema took shape in which revolutionary time pulverized the foundations of the old order. Revolution came to mean rejecting the past, introducing a sense of rupture in secular time, maximizing and elongating the presen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynn Hunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-07-01
Series:Diciottesimo Secolo
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/300