Is Time Out of Joint? : On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

Aleida Assmann

ISBN 10: 1501742434 / ISBN 13: 9781501742439

Editore: Cornell University Press Feb 2020, 2020

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Neuware - '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'--.

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• Titolo: Is Time Out of Joint? : On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime
• Editore: Cornell University Press Feb 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1501742434
• ISBN 13: 9781501742439
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 160 A x 23 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 534 grammi

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Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—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 lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse.

In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.