Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime /
Assmann, Aleida,
Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime / Aleida Assmann ; translated by Sarah Clift. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource.
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out of 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, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. This text argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation.
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Time.
Time in literature.
History--Philosophy.
115
Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime / Aleida Assmann ; translated by Sarah Clift. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource.
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out of 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, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. This text argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation.
9781501742446 (ebook) : No price
Time.
Time in literature.
History--Philosophy.
115