Vol. 1 (2016)
Articles

Revolutionary Time and Regeneration

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  • Lynn Hunt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/ds-18687

Published 2016-07-26

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Hunt, L. (2016). Revolutionary Time and Regeneration. Diciottesimo Secolo, 1, 62–76. https://doi.org/10.13128/ds-18687
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Abstract

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 present in order to turn it into a moment of personal and collective transformation, and shaping the future in accordance with the discoveries made in the present. Time ceased being a given. It became a medium of endless potential for change that could be willed, that is, enacted by conscious choice.
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