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9789639776272

Given World and Time : Temporalities in Context

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    9789639776272

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    9639776270

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-30
  • Publisher: Central European Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Temporality in the Long Run
Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near Eastp. 15
Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odysseyp. 25
Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of Historyp. 47
World History According to Katrinap. 59
Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations
Intricate Temporalities: The Transfiguration of Proper and "Improper" Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environmentsp. 81
Quoting from the Past, or Dealing with Temporalityp. 105
Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politicsp. 131
Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinkingp. 145
Documentary Re-enactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not Onep. 171
Shapes of Modernity
Time and Progress-Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertsonp. 195
Religious Revivals: The Binds of Religion and Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ and Richard Wright's The Outsiderp. 221
Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialismp. 243
The Politics of Temporality: Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derridap. 261
"To the Planetarium": From Cosmos to History and Back
Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Returnp. 279
A Microscope for Time: What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Starsp. 297
Contributorsp. 359
Indexp. 365
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