Description

Asks how history can be related to the future and to that end, it examines the issue of how determination works.

Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means to be « determined » by history, it also asks what kind of openings there might be in our encounters with history for interruptions, re-readings, and re-writings. Engaging texts spanning multiple genres and several centuries—from John Locke to Maurice Blanchot, from Hegel to Benjamin—Clift looks at experiences of time that exceed the historical narration of experiences said to have occurred in time. She focuses on the co-existence of multiple temporalities and opens up the quintessentially modern notion of historical succession to other possibilities. The alternatives she draws out include the mediations of language and narration, temporal leaps, oscillations and blockages, and the role played by contingency in representation. She argues that such alternatives compel us to reassess the ways we understand history and identity in a traumatic, or indeed in a post-traumatic, age.

Langue

en

Version

Couverture rigide

Date de sortie initiale

11 novembre 2013

Nombre de pages

255

Illustrations

Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Sarah Clift

Editeur principal

Fordham University Press

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant

Mare Nostrum Group B.V.

Adresse électronique du fabricant

[email protected]

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Hauteur de l’emballage

23 mm

Largeur d’emballage

160 mm

Largeur du produit

152 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

229 mm

Longueur du produit

229 mm

Poids de l’emballage

476 g

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Non

Porno

Non

EAN

EAN

9780823254200

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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Religion, spiritualité et philosophie

Histoire

Philosophie

Philosophie sociale et politique

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Langue

Anglais

Type de livre

Hardcover