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Time passing : modernity and nostalgia / Sylviane Agacinski ; translated by Jody Gladding.
Van Pelt Library BD638 .A27713 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agacinski, Sylviane.
- Series:
- European perspectives
- Standardized Title:
- Passeur de temps. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Chichester [England] : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In this wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of time, Agacinski weaves together discussions of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, Baudelaire, Barthes, and especially Walter Benjamin -her model for the modern "passer of time" -as she traces a time-line of the philosophy of time.
- Contents:
- The Western Hour 3
- Passage 11
- Tests of Time
- The Retreat of the Eternal 25
- Movement 33
- Un passeur de temps: Walter Benjamin 49
- The Time of Images
- Historical Polemic: The Modernity of Photography 65
- The Epoch of Phantoms 89
- Anachronisms of Art: Style and Medium 105
- Political Time
- Patience and Democracy 139
- Media Time 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231125143
- 0231125151
- OCLC:
- 50948674
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