Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Temporality in the Long Run | |
Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East | p. 15 |
Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey | p. 25 |
Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of History | p. 47 |
World History According to Katrina | p. 59 |
Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations | |
Intricate Temporalities: The Transfiguration of Proper and "Improper" Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environments | p. 81 |
Quoting from the Past, or Dealing with Temporality | p. 105 |
Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politics | p. 131 |
Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinking | p. 145 |
Documentary Re-enactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not One | p. 171 |
Shapes of Modernity | |
Time and Progress-Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertson | p. 195 |
Religious Revivals: The Binds of Religion and Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ and Richard Wright's The Outsider | p. 221 |
Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism | p. 243 |
The Politics of Temporality: Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida | p. 261 |
"To the Planetarium": From Cosmos to History and Back | |
Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Return | p. 279 |
A Microscope for Time: What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Stars | p. 297 |
Contributors | p. 359 |
Index | p. 365 |
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