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Historian Daniel Woolf reviews "Chronos: The West Confronts Time" by François Hartog
“The Hegemony of Now”: French historian François Hartog is considered one of the great thinkers of historical time. As we experience an increasingly crisis-ridden sense of the present, his new book, Chronos: The West Confronts Time, offers a sweeping history of the concept of time in the “West,” beginning with the Greeks in antiquity and ending with our current periodization of the Anthropocene.
This in-depth review by Daniel Woolf offers an extremely rich and entertaining overview of Hartog’s “romp through twenty-five hundred years of the human sense of time” along with his own theoretical insights on why our time is what it is. Big thanks to Alexandre Leskanich for commissioning this review and for his editorial work on it.