num_pages: 274
description: Thirteen expert historians and philosophers address basic questions on historical time and on the distinctions between past present and future. Their contributions are organised around four themes: the relation between time and modernity; the issue of ruptures in time and the influence of catastrophic events such as revolutions and wars on temporal distinctions; the philosophical analysis of historical time and temporal distinctions; and the construction of time outside Europe through processes of colonialism imperialism and globalisation.
language: None
title: Breaking Up Time: Negotiating the Borders Between Present, Past and Future
publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht