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This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time – the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present – opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.
Alexandra Paulin-Booth is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Academic Coordinator at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Introduction: a history of timesPart I: Time and the Dreyfus Affair1 Action: engaging in the Affair2 Disillusion: the Universités populaires and the aftermath of the AffairPart II: Time and the nation3 Darkness and emptiness: the radical right, the Franco-Prussian War, and the present4 The radical right and the ‘eternal France’Part III: Time and revolution5 Between reform and revolution: notions of change on the left6 The infinite temple: futurist fiction and scientific discourse on the left7 Syndicalist solutions? Proletarian time, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Cercle ProudhonConclusion: changing timesIndex
Shortlisted for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize 2024.
