Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture
(Part of the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Series)
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Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a "historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231163614
ISBN13:9780231163613
Release Date:May 2014
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Philosophy Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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