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Amaterasu (Japanese goddess),
154Anaximander (Greek philosopher),
1,
205n1Ancient City (Fustel de Coulanges),
134
Ancients: imitation of,
74,
92; Indians and,
78,
83–84; moderns and,
67,
76,
86–87,
107; savages and,
67–69,
76,
77;
see also Greece;
Rome“Annals of the poor,”
31–32Anthropology,
56,
69,
112,
121,
186,
195; culture and,
23; with form of temporality,
38–40; historical,
23–28,
36; history and,
9,
36“Anti-affliction,”
46,
47Archival institutions,
116Arts,
170; conservation of,
176; in Greece,
169,
171,
173; historians,
171; pillaging of,
175–79; in Rome,
169,
171; with time and history,
174Assassins of Memory (Vidal-Naquet),
102
Atala (Chateaubriand),
78
Athens Charter of 1931,
182,
183Augustine (saint),
xvi,
12,
56; attention and,
57,
58; distension and,
59,
60; Odysseus compared to,
55–63; with time,
57Bankruptcy: in ancient Greece,
xiv; of history,
110,
129Bards: heroes and,
46–49,
51–52,
55,
216n28; as historians,
48; Muses inspiring,
49,
55; with past and future divinatory knowledge,
44,
55; as seers,
48Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques,
69–70Baudelaire, Charles,
50,
84Between Past and Future (Arendt),
5
Boissy d’Anglas, François-Étienne,
174Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne,
xvi,
11,
12Caractères originaux de l’histoire rurale française (Bloch),
138
Change, France with societal,
243n119Charles X (King of France),
92Chateaubriand, François-René de,
xvii,
11,
83,
92,
101,
179,
193; on acceleration of time,
123; America and,
77–79,
97–98;
Complete Works,
66–67,
93;
historia magistra vitae and,
72–77; Odysseus and,
88; return of,
79; ruins and,
89–95; savages and,
68; time and,
65–66,
79–81,
103,
106,
194; travel and,
66–72;
see also Historical Essay;
Travels in AmericaChristianity,
179; conversions to,
29–30,
42,
169,
223n84;
historia magistra vitae and,
106; orders of time and,
56,
59–63,
153–54; present and,
109–10Cities,
134; city-states in Greece,
28,
54; “Generic City,”
xixThe City of God (Augustine),
59
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
202The Collective Memory (Halbwachs),
122
Condorcet, Nicolas de (marquis),
xviConfessions (Augustine),
xvi,
56
Conservation,
115,
118,
151,
157; of art,
176; France and,
161,
173–74; of monuments,
166–67; restoration and,
152,
175Considerations on the Arts of Design (Quatremère de Quincy),
170
Constructing the Past (Le Goff and Nora),
120–21
Crises: financial crisis of 2008,
xiii,
xiv; modern regime’s,
104–7Croesus (King of Lydia),
2Cultures: anthropology and,
23; cultural diversity,
14,
26,
187; gaps,
14–15; Greek,
19; heritage,
172–73,
181,
184,
189Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times (Lafitau),
69
Dangers, of imitation,
75–76Death,
7,
13,
113,
138; life after,
61,
134; mourning and,
43–44,
46,
50,
53,
216n31; as price for listening pleasure,
53–54; with statues uprooted,
171–72The Decline of the West (Spengler),
13
Democracy in America (Tocqueville),
94
Description of Greece (Pausanias),
156–57
Descriptio urbis Romae (Alberti),
166
d’Estaing, Valéry Giscard,
118Dictionary of Architecture (Quatremère de Quincy),
170
Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau),
68
Discourse on Universal History (Bossuet),
12
Disorientation, of time,
3–5,
80Distension: Augustine and,
59,
60; Odysseus and,
57,
58Does History Go Faster? (Jeanneney),
123
Dreams, interpretation of,
12Droysen, Johann Gustav,
104Earth, Heaven separated from,
33,
35Ecclesiastical history,
62“Editorial” (Sartre),
111“The End of History” (Fukuyama),
15“Entering one’s future backwards,”
227n12Essay on the Acceleration of History (Halévy),
123
Estrangement,
3; historicity and,
xv; from past, present, and future,
xvi; self-,
50,
51–52,
55; from time,
42–43Eusebius (bishop of Caesarea),
62Events: current,
7,
33; from event to myth and working misunderstandings,
34–38; from myth to,
32–34; non-events-based history,
33; as repetitious for Maori,
33; requirements for appearance of,
38–39; rethinking of,
37Fault lines, of present,
114–20Fear: of forgetting,
45; heuristics of,
198Financial crisis, of 2008,
xiii,
xivFrance,
101–3,
115–16,
129,
135; with commemorations,
119–20,
141–43; conservation and,
161,
173–74; heritage in,
149–55,
161–62,
181–83,
235n3; with national consciousness,
233n105; with national history,
131–41; national unity of,
144; with pillaging of art,
175–79; with societal changes,
243n119; universalization and,
180–85; urban development projects in,
117–19,
182;
see also French Resistance;
French RevolutionFrancis I (King of France),
161French Heritage Foundation Law,
182–83French Revolution,
11,
65,
73,
74,
102,
104,
107; cultural heritage and,
172–73; despotism and,
174–75; with heritage and present,
170–80; museums and,
175–79; Quatremère de Quincy and,
170–72Fukuyama, Francis,
15,
146Future,
xv; disorientation of,
3–5,
80; divinatory knowledge of,
44–45,
55; “entering one’s future backwards,”
227n12; estrangement from,
xvi; forgetting of,
112; gap between past and,
5,
13,
53,
74,
88,
204;
historia magistra vitae and,
38,
72–77;
Historical Essay and,
73; Maori and,
33,
34; past and,
105,
109,
190,
194,
201–2; with past and present as single concept,
211n57; present threatened by,
xviii,
13,
191,
198Futurist Manifesto (Marinetti),
107,
108,
203
Gaps: between ancients and moderns,
87; culture,
14–15; between past and future,
5,
13,
53,
74,
88,
204; in time,
3–7,
88,
106Genius of Christianity (Chateaubriand),
179
German Sites of Memory,
120
Greece: art in,
169,
171,
173; bankruptcies in ancient,
xiv; city-states in,
28,
54; culture,
19; heritage in,
156–58; legacy of,
174; orders of time in,
1–2; Scythians and,
70–72; statues from,
171; tragedy,
31Grey, George (Sir),
32,
33,
34Hartog, François,
18,
205n1,
206n26,
206n28,
209n31,
213n21,
213n26,
213n29,
214n1,
217n35,
218n64,
220n9,
221n16,
221n22,
221n23,
221n30,
222n34,
222n90,
227n12,
227n18,
227n19,
227n29,
227n51,
232n94,
233n97,
237n22,
239n64,
241n92;
see also The Mirror of HerodotusHeaven, Earth separated from,
33,
35Hedda Gabler (Ibsen),
110
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
9,
11,
27,
28,
49Hélias, Pierre-Jakez,
102Heritage,
98,
103,
230n55; with ancients and present,
155–62; cultural,
172–73,
181,
184,
189; defined,
152; in Europe,
152–53; in France,
149–55,
161–62,
181–83,
235n3; with French Revolution and present,
170–80; in Greece,
156–58; history of,
151–55; identity and,
119,
151,
182; in Japan,
154–55; memory and,
11; national,
119; with natural environment,
151–52,
187; Rome and,
155–56,
158–70; with time of environment,
186–91; universalization of,
180–86; world,
6,
150,
186–87Historia magistra vitae,
38,
62–63,
72–77,
92; Christianity and,
106; defined,
105; inverted,
95,
98; new interpretation of,
190; repetition and,
91
Historians,
228n32; art,
171; bards as,
48; on capitalism,
xiv; history and,
101,
121,
122–23,
139; as last traveler,
82; regimes of historicity constructed by,
xvi,
8–9; task of,
xv,
xvii,
1,
16,
134–36,
144–45,
208n27; time and,
8,
81,
104–5; as witnesses,
115Historical Essay (Chateaubriand),
66,
67,
68,
71,
220n7,
220n12; freedom in,
85–86; past, present, and future in,
73; time in,
79–81,
83,
90
Historical Studies (Chateaubriand),
80–81,
101
Histories (Herodotus),
70
History,
92; anthropology and,
9,
36; with arts and time,
174; bankruptcy of,
110,
129; “cold” societies and zero historical temperature,
24; cumulative,
14,
26,
112; ecclesiastical,
62; Germany with modern concept of,
73; global historical turning points,
210n55; of heritage concept,
151–55; heroic regimes and,
28–32,
36,
38; historians and,
101,
121,
122–23,
139; historical anthropology,
23–28,
36; islands of,
36,
38–39; justice and link to,
1–2; legend differentiated from,
215n5; memory and,
2,
6–7,
16,
102,
120–31; with modern regime’s crises,
104–7; from myth to event,
32–34; national,
127–28,
131–41; non-events-based,
33;
The Odyssey as “first” historical narrative,
45,
49; orders of time and universal,
11–15; of present time,
8; of price,
13; repetition and,
71; scientific,
121,
138; social function of,
207n15; stationary,
26A History of French Civilization (Duby and Mandrou),
138
History of Art in Antiquity (Winckelmann),
169–70,
177
History of France (Bainville),
137–38
History of France (Burguière and Revel),
141
History of France (Lavisse),
136
History of France (Michelet),
120
History of Private Life (Ariès and Duby),
138
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides),
32
History of the Political Institutions of Ancient France (Fustel de Coulanges),
134
The History of the French Population and Its Attitudes to Life Since the Eighteenth Century (Ariès),
138
Hocart, Arthur Maurice,
29The Horse of Pride (Hélias),
102
The Hour of Our Death (Ariès),
138
Human spirit, regeneration of,
174Identity: European,
148; heritage and,
119,
151,
182; with memory, heritage, and commemoration,
119; narrative,
52; personal,
217n41The Immoralist (Gide),
110
The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (Jonas),
197
Injustice, fortune’s,
165,
168In Search of Lost Time (Proust),
128,
143
Institutions, archival,
116Instruction of Year II,
173–74Interpretation: of dreams,
12;
historia magistra and new,
190Jaucourt, Louis de,
70,
71Jetztzeit (presence of now),
129
Justice,
201; fortune’s injustice,
165,
168; history and,
1–2Kamehameha (king of Hawaii),
36Knowledge,
156; of bards and historians,
48; divinatory,
44–45,
55; not knowing and,
56; sirens with language of,
218n48Lafitau, Joseph-François,
68–69Language,
24,
84,
89,
147; of knowledge and Sirens,
218n48; Latin,
109,
155,
162,
164; linguistic time,
211n57A Lapse of Memory (Segalen),
84
Leaves of Hypnos (Char),
4
Lectures on History (Volney),
92
Letters to Miranda (Quatremère de Quincy),
170,
171
Lévi-Strauss, Claude,
8,
9,
14–15,
37,
40,
67; cultural diversity and,
187; with eventfulness,
26–27; on historicity of societies,
24–26; savages and,
111–12;
see also Race and HistoryLife, after death,
61,
134Life of Rancé (Chateaubriand),
89
Lono (Hawaiian deity),
36Louis-Philippe (king of France),
180Louis XVI (king of France),
161Manifesto of the Futurist Painters,
108
Marie Louise of Austria (empress of France),
xviiMarrou, Henri-Irénée,
139Medieval Civilization (Le Goff),
148
Memories of Odysseus,
18–19
Memory,
84,
98,
102; collective,
121–25,
187; commemorations and,
119–20,
141–43,
191; communism and,
208n25; heritage and,
11; history and,
2,
6–7,
16,
102,
120–31; Jews and past,
6–7; reconstructed,
119; site of,
6,
10,
85,
120,
125–27,
145–46,
153–54,
184; social thought and,
122; societies based on,
124; time and,
xvi,
6; witness and,
7Memory, History, Forgetting (Ricoeur),
2,
102
The Mirror of Herodotus (Hartog),
18
Misunderstandings: from event to myth with working,
34–38; with Maori and British,
34–35; of present,
130Modern: concept of history,
73; freedoms,
85–86; with regime’s crises,
104–8Moral Considerations on the Destination of Works of Art (Quatremère de Quincy),
176
Muses: bards inspired by,
49,
55; poets and,
48; with present, past, and future divinatory knowledge,
44; Sirens as counter-,
52–53Myths: cosmic,
31,
33; to event,
32–34; from event to myth,
34–38; Hawaii and political,
36Narratives,
2; devices,
50; identity,
52;
The Odyssey as “first” historical,
45,
49; utopian,
77Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon),
12Neufchâteau, François de,
175New History (Le Goff, Chartier, and Revel),
121
Nietzsche, Friedrich,
110Non-events-based history,
33Nora, Pierre,
6,
120–21; on acceleration of time,
124; commemorations and,
141–42; on heritage,
150; on historians and history,
123; with past and present,
142; with site of memory,
126–27; time and,
103;
see also Lieux de mémoireOdysseus,
xvi,
11,
18–19,
215n13; attention and,
58; Augustine compared to,
55–63; Chateaubriand and,
88; distension and,
57,
58; return of,
58; self-estrangement and,
50,
51–52; with Sirens’ call to oblivion,
52–55; tears of,
46–52,
58; as witness,
48,
55The Odyssey (Homer): as “first” historical narrative,
45,
49; with
The Iliad,
45,
53,
215n16; narrative devices in,
50; with Odysseus’s tears,
46–52,
58; past and present juxtaposed in,
54–55; perpetual present in,
41–46,
54,
56; with Sirens’ call to oblivion,
52–55
Omnipresent, present as,
8On the Concept of History (Benjamin),
129
On the Inconstancy of Fortune (Poggio Bracciolini),
164
Order of Discourse (Foucault),
2
Orders of time: Christianity and,
56,
59–63,
153–54; gaps in,
3–7; historical links to,
1–2; Judaism and,
60; from the Pacific to Berlin,
7–11; regimes of historicity and,
11–19; with universal histories and,
11–15The Order of Time (Pomian),
2
Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt),
5
“Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History” (Sahlins),
23Pacific, with orders of time,
7–11Past,
xv; disorientation of,
3–5,
80; divinatory knowledge of,
44–45,
55; estrangement from,
xvi; future and,
105,
109,
190,
194,
201–2; gap between future and,
5,
13,
53,
74,
88,
204;
historia magistra vitae and,
38,
72–77; Jews and memory of,
6–7; Maori and,
33,
34; mourning and,
43–44,
46,
50,
216n31;
The Odyssey with present juxtaposed with,
54–55; present and,
121,
142,
156,
194–95,
229n43; with present and future as single concept,
211n57; with presentist and historicist approaches,
208n28; time and objectification of,
2;
see also MemoryPerrault, Charles,
65,
107Petit-Dutaillis, Charles,
137Pleasure, death and listening,
53–54Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco,
164–65,
166Politics,
134; of environmental protections,
198–200; Hawaiian political myths,
36; of utopia,
197Pomian, Krzysztof,
2,
152Power: antiquities and,
166; Kamehameha and,
36; of majority,
28; of seers,
55Present: autarchic,
208n28; Christianity and,
109–10; disorientation of,
3–5,
80; divinatory knowledge of,
44–45,
55; estrangement from,
xvi; eternity and,
202–3; fault lines of,
114–20; with French Revolution and heritage,
170–80; future as threat to,
xviii,
13,
191,
198; with heritage and ancients,
155–62;
Historical Essay and,
73; history of present time,
8; misunderstandings of,
130;
The Odyssey with past juxtaposed with,
54–55; as omnipresent,
8; past and,
121,
142,
156,
194–95,
229n43; with past and future as single concept,
211n57; perpetual,
41–46,
54,
56,
58,
208n28; presentism distinct from,
xvii–xviii; Sirens as muses of anti-mourning in,
53Preservation, restoration or,
155,
158Price: history of,
13; listening pleasure with death as,
53–54Primitive societies,
27,
32Proscription, of imitation,
104La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes,
107
Race and History (Lévi-Strauss),
14,
26,
27,
187
Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem (Chateaubriand),
83
Reflections on Imitation (Winckelmann),
177
Reflections on the World Today (Valéry),
3
Regimes of historicity: defined,
xvi–xvii,
9,
15–17; gaps in time with,
3–7; heroic,
29; historians constructing,
xvi,
8–9; orders of time and,
11–19; from the Pacific to Berlin,
7–11; presentism and,
xv; relevancy of,
38; universal histories and,
11–15Repetition,
73–74,
137;
historia magistra and,
91; history and,
71; Maori with events as,
33Res Gestae (Augustus),
158
Returns,
6,
99,
218n52; of Chateaubriand,
79; homecomings,
44,
45,
53,
58; to life of savage,
77,
111–12; of Odysseus,
58Ricoeur, Paul,
2,
60,
102,
217n40,
218n58; on historicity,
9; narrative identity and,
52; on responsibility,
198,
200,
244n16;
see also Forgetting;
History;
Memory;
Time and NarrativeRoma instaurata (
Rome Restored) (Biondo),
165
Rome: art in,
169,
171; heritage and,
155–56,
158–70; as home of antiquity,
171; Latin and,
164; Renaissance and,
156,
162–68;
renovatio of,
163–65,
171,
190,
196; restoration of,
159,
165–66; ruins of,
165,
166–68; statues and,
169–70; as tomb,
168Rosenzweig, Franz,
4,
109Ruins; or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (Volney),
90–91,
130
Sahlins, Marshall,
8,
9; with anthropology and forms of temporality,
38–40; from event to myth and working misunderstandings,
34–38; heroic regime and,
28–32,
36,
38; with historical anthropology,
23–28,
36; from myth to event,
32–34;
see also Islands of HistorySaint Augustine and Aristotle,
60
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
23,
111The Savage Mind (Lévi-Strauss),
24
Savages,
70,
77–79; ancients, and moderns and,
32,
66–69,
76; freedom of,
85–86; as interpretive vantage point,
86; as men of nature,
68,
71–72; return to the life of,
77,
111–12; time and,
82–84The Scythians (Voltaire),
70
Seers,
74; bards as,
48; power of,
55; with present, past, and future divinatory knowledge,
44–45,
55; as voyeurs,
48Sirens: call to oblivion,
52–55; as counter-Muses,
52–53; with language of knowledge,
218n48; in present as muses of anti-mourning,
53Social function, of history,
207n15The Social Contract (Rousseau),
68
“
Société ‘sans histoire’ et historicité” (“Societies ‘without history’ and historicity”) (Lefort),
27Societies,
228n32; changes in French,
243n119; “cold,”
8,
24–26; historicity of,
24–28; “hot,”
8,
24,
27,
112,
127; memory-based,
124; nations and,
130; nature compared to,
68,
70; primitive,
27,
32; social forms,
31Some Ideas on the Arts,
on the Need to Support Them,
on the Institutions Which Can Ensure Their Progress,
and on Various Institutions Necessary for Their Teaching,
174
The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophüls),
102
Space: “junkspace,”
xix; social,
185Supplement to the Voyage of Cook (Sahlins),
24
The Swan (Baudelaire),
50
Le système de l’histoire (Bonnaud),
210n55
Tableau de la géographie de la France (Vidal de la Blache),
125
Tane (separator of Earth and Heaven),
35Temporality, anthropology and,
38–40Thakombau (Fijian leader),
29,
42Theodoric (Ostrogoth king),
160Theory, of relativity,
14,
26Thermidorian Reaction,
75Time,
23,
69,
110,
128,
143; acceleration of,
80,
123–24,
178,
190,
231n71; Achilles with,
218n51; with arts and history,
174; attention and,
57; Augustine with,
57; Chateaubriand and,
65–66,
79–81,
103,
106,
194; chronic and linguistic,
211n57; disorientation of,
3–5,
80; of environment with heritage,
186–91; estrangement from,
42–43; experience of,
79–81; gaps in,
3–7,
88,
106; historians and,
8,
81,
104–5; in
Historical Essay,
79–81,
83,
90; history of present,
8; Indians and,
83; memory and,
xvi,
6; mind and,
57; Nora and,
103,
124; in Old Testament,
42–43,
224n94; with past objectified,
2; of ruins,
208n28; savages and,
83–84; with temporality and anthropology,
38–40; in three modes,
xvi; of traveling,
81–89; unanchored,
78–79;
see also Future;
Orders of time;
Past;
Present;
PresentismTime and Narrative (Ricoeur),
2,
217
Time: Histories and Ethnologies,
39
Transfer of rule,
13,
164Travel: Chateaubriand and,
66–72; historians as last travelers,
82; time of,
81–89Travel Diary (Montaigne),
167
Travels in America (Chateaubriand),
66,
67–68; ancients and savages in,
77; freedom in,
85–86; time of traveling and time in,
81–89; unanchored time in,
78–79
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece (Barthélemy),
70
Tristes tropiques (Lévi-Strauss),
67,
111
Untimely Meditations (Nietzsche),
110
Uprisings, of Hone Heke,
34Venice Charter of 1964,
182,
183Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944 (Paxton),
102
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944 (Rousso),
102
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre,
102View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America (Volney),
92
The World of Yesterday (Zweig),
4
Zero: “cold” societies and historical temperature of,
24; degree zero museum,
188; growth,
5