On borrowed time : the art and economy of living with deadlines / Harald Weinrich ; translated by Steven Rendall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinrich, Harald.

Standardized Title:

Knappe Zeit. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Life is Short, Art is Long 1

Medical Aphorisms and the Movement of Time / Hippocrates, Aristotle, Theophrastus 1

Philosophical Remarks on the Brevity of Life / Seneca 9

Domestic Economy and Time Management / Leon Battista Alberti 12

Teaching Time Management in London and Paris / Chesterfield, Rilke 15

2 The Midpoint of Life 18

Midway on Life's Journey / Dante, Petrarch, Holderlin 18

Rejuvenation in Rome-through Rome / Goethe 26

The Physician's Art of Prolonging Life / Hufeland 30

A Long Life with Faust / Goethe 33

New Art and Another Life / Vittorio Alfieri, Schiller 39

Magic and Style in Life-Time / Balzac 43

Every Day Is a Sonnet / Oscar Wilde 50

Untimely Death or Venerable Old Age / Chatterton, Keats, Benn, Thomas Mann 53

Revocable and Irrevocable Time / Ingeborg Bachmann 58

3 Limited Time in this World and in the Next 64

Yet a Little While / Jesus, St. Paul 64

In Purgatory, Time Is Precious / Dante 69

More Time for a New World / Benjamin Franklin 74

A Purgatory in This World / Max Weber 79

Revolutionary Historical Times, in Rapid Fire / Heine, Marx 81

4 Short and Shortest Times 89

Two Gods of Time: Chronos and Kairos / Mythology, Classics 89

Stars and Hours / Schiller, Wallenstein, Stefan Zweig 93

Between Austerlitz and Waterloo / Emile Zola 97

5 The Economy of Limited Time 101

Three-Day Friendship: Hospitality / Homer, Knigge 101

Classicism as Economy of Time / From Plutarch to Andre Gide 105

Living Faster, Talking Less / Jean Paul, Madame de Stael 110

6 The Drama of Time in Short Supply 114

Epic Is Long, Drama Is Short / Aristotle 114

How Long Is Twenty-Four Hours? / Corneille 116

Time out of Joint / Shakespeare, Hamlet 118

Saladin Learns to Take His Time / Lessing, Nathan the Wise 123

Time and the Oeuvre / Proust 126

7 Finitude, Infinity 130

Curiosity-Thirst for Knowledge-Science / From Aristotle to Leibniz 130

A Nothingness of Time in Exchange for Eternity / Pascal, Emily Dickinson 134

Too Little Time, Too Much World / Blumenberg 137

Anthropological Experiences of Shortage / Odo Marquard 141

8 Living with Deadlines 144

Clocks, Calendars, Appointment Calendars / Clockmakers, Calendarmakers 144

Deadlines in Everyday Life / Tutti, con moto 149

Deadlines in Law, with a Brief Glance at "Abortion Limits" / Civil Law, Criminal Law, Labor Law 153

"... but for the Present, not Yet" / Heidegger, Marquard 158

9 Short Stories About Short Deadlines 164

Saved from Death at the Last Minute / Shakespeare, Thousand and One Nights, Merchant of Venice 164

A Ballad about Friendship and Deadlines / Schiller, Die Burgschaft 168

A Devil's Pact with Deadlines / Chamisso 171

The Traps and Labors of Deadlines / Flaubert, Maupassant 173

Deadlines of Honor, Prussian Style / Theodor Fontane 176

Deadlines for Honor in Imperial Austria / Arthur Schnitzler 178

A Short Time to Be Humane / Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold 181

Fifteen Minutes' Delay for Death / Blaise Cendrars 185

Everyman's Last Reprieve / Hugo von Hofmannsthal 188

A Short Epilogue in the Emergency Room / Tabucchi 191

A Race around the World / Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days 193

Short Time, Comic Style / Camoletti, Boeing-Boeing 195

A Twenty-Minute Deadline: Lola Runs / Tom Tywker, Lola Rennt 197

10 Epilogue on the Sense of Time 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780226886015

0226886018

OCLC:

192045776

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