The Eurasian Origins of Empty Time and Space
Modernity as Temporality Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7797103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William M Reddy (0000-0002-0929-1663, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-356 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hith.10815 |
| OpenAlex | W2530076180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Understood as a form of temporality, modernity is seen as consisting of empty time and space. However, careful examination of the origins of modern notions of empty time and space suggest they arose from background assumptions in wide use across Eurasia in the early modern period, and also that they arose prior to, and independent of, the emergence of the modern nation‐state. Here, various Eurasian versions of astronomy and philology are examined to show that they relied on such background assumptions and could therefore be readily translated and shared across the boundaries separating quite different cosmologies
Epistemology · Linguistics · Modernity · Philology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Spacetime · Temporality · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |