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...
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...Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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