RT Book
T1 Is time out of joint?: on the rise and fall of the modern time regime
T2 Signale transfer German thought in translation
T2 A Signale book
A1 Assmann, Aleida 1947-
A2 Clift, Sarah
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1671337409
AB "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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 233-245
CN BD638
SN 9781501742439
K1 Time
K1 Time in literature
K1 History : Philosophy