CONTENTS
Presentism: Stopgap or New State?
Introduction: Orders of Time and Regimes of Historicity
Gaps
From the Pacific to Berlin
Universal Histories
Regimes of Historicity
ORDERS OF TIME 1
1. Making History: Sahlins’s Islands
The Heroic Regime
From Myth to Event
Working Misunderstandings: From Event to Myth
Anthropology and Forms of Temporality
2. From Odysseus’s Tears to Augustine’s Meditations
Each Day Is the First Day
Odysseus’s Tears
The Sirens’ Call to Oblivion
Odysseus Has Not Read Augustine
3. Chateaubriand, Between Old and New Regimes of Historicity
The Young Chateaubriand’s Journey
Historia magistra vitae
The American Trunk
The Experience of Time
The Time of Traveling and Time in the
Travels
Ruins
ORDERS OF TIME 2
4. Memory, History, and the Present
The Modern Regime’s Crises
The Rise of Presentism
The Fault Lines of the Present
Memory and History
National Histories
Commemorations
The Moment of the
Lieux de mémoire
5. Heritage and the Present
A History of the Concept of Heritage
Antiquity
Rome
The French Revolution
Toward Universalization
The Time of the Environment
Our Doubly Indebted Present: The Reign of Presentism
Notes
Index