ABSTRACT
A common feature in the different accounts of the impact of time in modernity is the underscoring of how time becomes an explicit theme and problem. Under the condition of modernity time is described as externalized and detached from concrete social processes and is considered a force outside the experience of the single individual. Contrary to this, a pre-modern, feudal world was characterized by a concrete conception of time: time as woven into and regulated by the local material and cultural organization of society; the passing of seasons, day and night, religious feasts, etc.
