Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime /

"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...

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Main Author: Assmann, Aleida (Author)
Other Authors: Clift, Sarah (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Time and the modern
  • Work on the modern myth of history
  • Five aspects of the modern time regime
  • Concepts of time in late modernity
  • Is the time out of joint?
  • The past is not past, or, On repairing the modern time regime.