Is Time out of Joint? : : On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime /

Is Time out of Joint? : : On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime / / Aleida Assmann.

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Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Assmann, Aleida,
MitwirkendeR:
Clift, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Time and the Modern
  • 2. Work on the Modern Myth of History
  • 3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime
  • 4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity
  • 5. Is Time out of Joint?
  • 6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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