- Additional Authors
- Clift, Sarah
- Series Statement
- Signale transfer : German thought in translation
- Uniform Title
- Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen?. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen?.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2019032694
- OCLC
- ssj0002247260
- Author
Assmann, Aleida.
- Title
Is time out of joint? [electronic resource] : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime / Aleida Assmann ; translated by Sarah Clift.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020.
- Description
1 online resource.
- Series
Signale transfer : German thought in translation
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
"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 much of its glamor, too. The notion of progress and a utopian future have been eroded a growing ecological crisis. The seemingly solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the time span of a generation. In order to better understand our temporal crisis, we must start by reconstructing what has just disappeared. In this book, Aleida Assmann tracks the rise and fall of what she calls "the time regime of modernity," explaining what we have both gained and lost in this profound transformation of our cultural values and premises"-- Provided by publisher.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Clift, Sarah.
- Other Form:
Print version: Assmann, Aleida. Is time out of joint? Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020. 9781501742439 (DLC) 2019032693