Is Time Out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime |
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| Author:
| Assmann, Aleida |
| Translator:
| Clift, Sarah |
| Series title: | Signale TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-4243-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $78.00 |
Book Description:
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Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future--and their relationship to the present--been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has...
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future--and their relationship to the present--been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has...