《The Measure of Times Past》是1989年出版的圖書，作者是Wilcox, Donald J.。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Measure of Times Past
- 作者：Wilcox, Donald J.
- 出版時間：1989年11月
- 頁數：302 頁
- 定價：39.55 美元
- ISBN：9780226897226
內容簡介
In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.
