Humberto Beck

The Moment of Rupture

Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

The Moment of Rupture demonstrates how Ernst JYnger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin fused the consciousness of war, crisis, catastrophe, and revolution with literary and philosophical formulations of the concept of the instant, tracing the formation of a distinct mode of experiencing time based on the notion of a discontinuous present.sent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251593
• ISBN-10: 0812251598
• Artikelnr.: 56395019

Autorenporträt

Humberto Beck is Professor at the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Instant from Goethe to Nietzsche: The Modern Beginnings of a
Concept
Chapter 2. The Instant of the Avant-Garde
Chapter 3. Ernst Jünger and the Instant of Crisis
Chapter 4. Ernst Bloch and the Temporality of the Not-Yet
Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin and the Now-Time of History
Conclusion. Instantaneism as a Regime of Historicity
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments