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The dialectic of cosmopolitan time / Shaj Mathew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathew, Shaj, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmopolitanism--Philosophy.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- Time in literature.
- Time in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- What is time? 'The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time' looks beyond the clock and the calendar to explore its many dimensions: the time of mind and memory, the time of capitalism and colonialism, and even the time of geopolitical rivalry. Shaj Mathew explores moments of world literature, particularly from the Middle East, when different times clash and converge. Such times - both linear and non-linear; qualitative and quantitative; secular and religious; reactionary and revolutionary - 'coexist' in the cosmopolitan spirit.
- Contents:
- The idealist-spiritualist critique of materialist modernity: the argument in miniature (in Iran)
- Ekphrastic temporality
- The multiple simultaneous temporalities of global modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust
- Beyond east and west: anachronic Istanbul
- Transcending eurochronology in the Louvre Abu Dhabi
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197819074
- 0197819079
- OCLC:
- 1535633352
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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