Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime / Aleida Assmann ; translated by Sarah Clift.
Material type: Computer fileLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:- 9781501742446 (ebook) :
- Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen?. English
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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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