Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context

Published by Central European University Press 2008

Given World and Time

Temporalities in Context

Edited by: Tyrus Miller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211591

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The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities.The volume's essays, divided into four main topical groups question critically the key problem of context, connecting it to the problem of time. Contexts, the essays suggest, are not timeless. Time and its contexts are only partly "given" to us: to the primordial donations of time and world correspond our epistemic, moral, and practical modes of receiving what has been granted. The notion of context may have radically different parameters in different historical, cultural, and disciplinary situations. Topics include the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity, as well as formal philosophies of history and the forms of histories implicit in individual and community experience. The medium specific use of time and history are examined with regard to song, image, film, oral narration, and legal discourse.

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Miller Tyrus :

Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature and Provost of Cowell Collegeat the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2008).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Tyrus Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Temporality in the Long Run
1. Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East Stefan M. Maul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey Karen Bassi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of History Jonathan Beecher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. World History According to Katrina Wai Chee Dimock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations
5. Intricate Temporalities: The Transfiguration of Proper and “Improper” Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environments Ruth HaCohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. Quoting from the Past or Dealing with Temporality Britta Duelke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7. Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politics Richard Terdiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8. Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinking Catherine M. Soussloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9. Documentary Re-enactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not One Bill Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Shapes of Modernity
10. Time and Progress—Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertson László Kontler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11. Religious Revivals: The Binds of Religion and Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ and Richard Wright’s The Outsider Andrew Wegley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
12. Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism Lisa Rofel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
13. The Politics of Temporality: Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida David Couzens Hoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
“To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back
14. Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Return Tyrus Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15. A Microscope for Time: What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Stars Karl Clausberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 375
Keywords: Enlightenment; Historiography; Modernity; Philosophy; Political philosophy; Post-communism; Time

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Published: October 10, 2008
ISBN: 9786155211591