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Patriarchs of Time - Samuel L. Macey

Patriarchs of Time

Dualism in Saturn-Cronus, Father Time, The Watchmaker God, and Father Christmas

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2010
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-3797-5 (ISBN)
CHF 43,55 inkl. MwSt
Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarchs of Time traces the lineage of time’s corporeal characterizations, from the deities of ancient Persia through modern consumer-culture icons.
Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarchs of Time traces the lineage of time’s gods from the deities of ancient Mesopotamia and Persia through the pantheons of Greece and Rome, the Christian Father Time, and the brief reign of the Newtonian Watchmaker God to the consumerist Santa Claus who holds sway over the year’s end celebrations of our own day. Each of these patriarchs, Samuel L. Macey shows, has embodied dualisms that reflect the dilemma in the Western mind between the joys and woes of our brief time on earth and the promise of eternal life or eternal punishment in the hereafter.

Santa Claus is today, effectively, the sole inheritor of Saturn’s old midwinter festival, but Macey suggests that it remains to be seen whether he will fully manifest the dualism that has always characterized the West’s patriarchs of time, and whether our present consumerist saturnalia will regain the spiritual message of hope and eternal life that has always been a part of time’s dominion.

Samuel L. Macey is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he was also the Dean of Graduate Studies. He is founder of the English Literary Studies Monograph Series and a former president of the International Society for the Study of Time. Among his books are Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought, The Dynamics of Progress: Time, Method, and Measure (Georgia), Time: A Bibliographic Guide, and Encyclopedia of Time.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.9.2010
Verlagsort Georgia
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Chronologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8203-3797-8 / 0820337978
ISBN-13 978-0-8203-3797-5 / 9780820337975
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