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9780754660972

Augenblick: The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century Western Philosophy

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    9780754660972

  • ISBN10:

    0754660974

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-02-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Augenblick, meaning literally 'In the blink of an eye', describes a 'decisive moment' in time that is both fleeting yet momentously eventful, even epoch-makingly significant. In this book Koral Ward investigates the development of the concept into one of the core ideas in Western existential philosophy alongside such concepts as anxiety and individual freedom. Ward examines the whole extent of the idea of the 'decisive moment', in which an individual's entire life-project is open to a radical reorientation. From its inception in Kierkegaard's works to the writings of Jaspers and Heidegger, she draws on a vast array of sources beyond just the standard figures of 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, finding ideas and examples in photography, cinema, music, art, and the modern novel.

Table of Contents

Of Time and The Eternal, Soren Kierkegaard's Moment [Oieblik]p. 1
The Gateway named Augenblick: its place in Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Returnp. 35
Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye' of the 'fleeting moment'p. 69
Martin Heidegger's Augenblick as 'moment of vision', and the Redemption of Beingp. 97
Henri Cartier-Bresson's Images a la Sauvette [Images on the Run], and the Image as Stillp. 125
A Decisive Epoch and the 'Existential Moment' [der Augenblick der Existenz] in Artp. 149
Conclusionp. 175
Bibliographyp. 181
Indexp. 187
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