Given World and Time : : Temporalities in Context /

Given World and Time : : Temporalities in Context / / ed. by Tyrus Miller.

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The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
MitwirkendeR:
Bassi, Karen,
Beecher, Jonathan,
Clausberg, Karl,
Couzens Hoy, David,
Dimock, Wai Chee,
Duelke, Britta,
HaCohen, Ruth,
Kontler, László,
Maul, Stefan M.,
Miller, Tyrus,
Nichols, Bill,
Rofel, Lisa,
Soussloff, Catherine M.,
Terdiman, Richard,
Wegley, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Miller, Tyrus,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Temporality in the Long Run
  • 1. Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East
  • 2. Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey
  • 3. Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of History
  • 4. World History According to Katrina
  • Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations
  • 5. Intricate Temporalities: The Transfiguration of Proper and “Improper” Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environments
  • 6. Quoting from the Past or Dealing with Temporality
  • 7. Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politics
  • 8. Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinking
  • 9. Documentary Re-enactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not One
  • Shapes of Modernity
  • 10. Time and Progress—Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertson
  • 11. Religious Revivals: The Binds of Religion and Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ and Richard Wright’s The Outsider
  • 12. Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism
  • 13. The Politics of Temporality: Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida
  • “To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back
  • 14. Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Return
  • 15. A Microscope for Time: What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Stars
  • Contributors
  • Index

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