Given world and time : temporalities in context /
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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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, ©2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Tyrus Miller
- Temporality in the long run
- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul
- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi
- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher
- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl
- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations
- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen
- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke
- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman
- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman
- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols
- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler
- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley
- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel
- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy
- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller
- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.