Things of the Past

A Modern Yearning

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

90 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34295-7 (ISBN)

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This Element explores the modern yearning for things of the past. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts. It is a journey into the modern condition and our relationship to the past as modern human beings.

This Element explores the yearning for things of the past, from early modern antiquarianism to the contemporary art market. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts. Their motivation was not just pleasure or profit. They longed for a past that had been lost and strived to reconstruct world history anew. This rewriting of history unleashed heated debates, all over the world and raging for centuries. The debates concerned not only the past but also the present and the future. Many believed that, by revealing a strange and foreign past, the material remains opened a path to modernity. So, the Element investigates not only the history of historical scholarship, and its obsession with things, but also our relationship to the past as modern human beings.

1. A modern yearning; 2. A history of things; 3. Assembling the world; 4. Dividing the world; 5. Many things; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	147 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-009-34295-9 / 1009342959
ISBN-13	978-1-009-34295-7 / 9781009342957
Zustand	Neuware