Capital Times

Tales from the Conquest of Time

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by Eric Alliez,

Translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele,

Foreword by Gilles Deleuze

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published February 1996, pages, paper

ISBN 0816622604

Analyzes the social and political processes involved in conceptions of time in ancient and medieval tradition and sets them in the context of contemporary political and philosophical debates centering on the thought of Kant and Marx. Alliez's ambitious work forces us to reevaluate the philosophical and historical status of time in Western culture.