Given world and time : temporalities in context / edited by Tyrus Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Tyrus, 1963-

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Physical Description:

viii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, 2008.

Summary:

Time is a slippery concept. Historians, physicists, clockmakers and poets have all tried to define time and make it somehow manageable. Miller (Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz) has gathered scholars from many countries and disciplines for this investigation into how time has been perceived and manipulated. From ancient Mesopotamia to New Orleans in 2005, each author constructs a time-view that alters according to the context.. Subjects include revolutions, religion, music, literature, anthropology, philosophy and the recreation of events in documentaries and docu-dramas. The variety of outlooks demonstrates that time is not something universally agreed upon. This study should spark discussions in many fields. Distributed by Books International. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Tyrus Miller

Temporality in the long run

Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul

Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi

Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher

World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl

Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations

The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen

Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke

Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman

Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman

Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols

Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler

Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley

Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel

The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy

Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller

A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.

Notes:

Filmography (p. 189).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

ISBN:

9789639776272

9639776270

OCLC:

227929001