Aleida Assmann

Is Time out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime
Übersetzer: Clift, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureâ and their relationship to the presentâ 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...

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Produktdetails

• signale TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781501742439
• ISBN-10: 1501742434
• Artikelnr.: 57837198

Autorenporträt

Aleida Assmann. translated by Sarah Clift

Inhaltsangabe

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