Historical measures

The book "Measures of Presentist Historicity and Experiences of Time" by François Hartog, Arab Organization for Translation. Experiences of time are diverse. Each society has a special relationship with the past, present, and future. François Hartog clarifies, through comparison, these different times: "measures of historicity." In the management of ancient historicity, the coming past is illuminated. But time accelerated after the 1789 revolution, and the lesson came from the future, leading to the development of modern historicity management. Then memory came, in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, to the forefront. And the present as well. As a history of the present, it explored the places of memory with words of time: celebration of anniversaries, memory, heritage, nation, identity. Meanwhile, time itself became a subject of consumption and commodity more than ever before. As a historian attentive to the present, François Hartog notes the rise of a fully present presence he calls "presentism." This contemporary experience of an ongoing present, charged with debts regarding the past and future, perhaps signifies the transition from managing historicity to managing another form of historicity. Have we, despite ourselves, moved from the concept of history to the concept of memory?