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Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony

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All essays in this volume take their timeframe from the millennium, using year 2000 as a major marker. A few years into the new millennium, the turn of the twentieth century into the twenty-first continues to organize historical memory and foresight, even if the urgency to couch almost everything in terms of this chronology has dwindled and given way to more meaningful markers — not the least, as many have said, the ‘true’ beginning of the new century: September 11, 2001.1

Ideology is the other side of chronology Wolf Lepenies

Even if I failed to take them fully into account, my thanks for critical comments on consecutive versions of this essay go to Helga Nowotny, Richard Rottenburg, Joerg Potthast, Terry Shinn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

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Joerges, B. (2003). Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony. In: Joerges, B., Nowotny, H. (eds) Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead. Sociology of the Sciences, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0185-4_13

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