Aleida Assmann: Is Time out of Joint?

Cover: 9781501742439 | Is Time out of Joint? | On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

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Beschreibung

"Is, as Hamlet once feared, the time out of joint? What has happened to our relation to the past and the future? The past has returned in various shapes: as nostalgia, as traumatic impact, and as historical origin or key event for the purposes of nation building. The future, meanwhile, has lost much of its glamor, too. The notion of progress and a utopian future have been eroded a growing ecological crisis. The seemingly solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the time span of a generation. In order to better understand our temporal crisis, we must start by reconstructing what has just disappeared. In this book, Aleida Assmann tracks the rise and fall of what she calls "the time regime of modernity," explaining what we have both gained and lost in this profound transformation of our cultural values and premises"--

Über den Autor

Aleida Assmann was until 2014 Chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of several books that have been translated into English, including most recently, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. With her husband Jan, she was awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory and the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

1. Time and the Modern

Baudelaire's Discovery of the Present

How Long Does the Present Last?

2. Work on the Modern Myth of History

Transformations in the Idea of Progress

The Theory of Time Underlying Modern Historiography

Modernization Theory and Theories of Modernity

When Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western History

The Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States)

3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime

Temporal Rupture

The Fiction of Beginning

Creative Destruction

Destroying and Preserving: The Invention of the Historical

Acceleration

4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity

Compensation Theory

Compensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past

5. Is Time out of Joint?

Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad Present

Connections between the Past, Present, and Future

6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime

Three New Categories: Culture, Identity, Memory

The Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible Time

Identity Politics: Intersections between History and Memory

Two Trends in the Politics of History

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781501742439
ISBN-10:	1501742434
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Assmann, Aleida
Übersetzung:	Clift, Sarah
Hersteller:	Cornell University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	236 x 158 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Aleida Assmann
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.02.2020
Gewicht:	0,53 kg

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