The Moment of Rupture : : Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought / / Humberto Beck.
An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, kairos, the time in which exceptional, unrepeatable events occurred, was opposed to chronos, measurabl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Instant from Goethe to Nietzsche: The Modern Beginnings of a Concept
- Chapter 2. The Instant of the Avant-Garde
- Chapter 3. Ernst Jünger and the Instant of Crisis
- Chapter 4. Ernst Bloch and the Temporality of the Not-Yet
- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin and the Now-Time of History
- Conclusion. Instantaneism as a Regime of Historicity
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments