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Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia
Sylviane Agacinski
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Description for Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia
hardcover. In this wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of time, Agacinski weaves together discussions of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, Baudelaire, Barthes, and especially Walter Benjamin-her model for the modern "passer of time"-as she traces a time-line of the philosophy of time. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 photos. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience the mutability of time. We feel it expand and contract, speed up and slow down, as it bends to the imperatives of memory, money, and the media. In our own time (itself a pregnant phrase) we have witnessed a disengagement with the past even as technological advances have allowed us to capture and reproduce past time ... Read more
What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience the mutability of time. We feel it expand and contract, speed up and slow down, as it bends to the imperatives of memory, money, and the media. In our own time (itself a pregnant phrase) we have witnessed a disengagement with the past even as technological advances have allowed us to capture and reproduce past time ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125147
SKU
V9780231125147
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About Sylviane Agacinski
Sylviane Agacinski teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She is the author of Parity of the Sexes (Columbia, 2001) and Aparte: Conceptions and Deaths of Soren Kierkegaard. Cited in the New Yorker as one of the most influential women in France, she has in recent years played a pivotal role in the feminist parite movement that has ... Read more
Reviews for Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia
Starting from the observation that 'passing' has become our way of being, that henceforth everything seems impermanent and unstable, Sylviane Agacinski tries to clarify from many different perspectives 'the ethic of the ephemeral' of this age, so elusive because it is transient and ungrounded. Along the way, she invents a style for her reflections that is both fresh and spare, ... Read more