Given World and Time

Temporalities in Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-963-9776-27-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities. The volume's essays, divided into four main topical groups question critically the key problem of context, connecting it to the problem of time. Contexts, the essays suggest, are not timeless. Time and its contexts are only partly given to us: to the primordial donations of time and world correspond our epistemic, moral, and practical modes of receiving what has been granted. The notion of context may have radically different parameters in different historical, cultural, and disciplinary situations. Topics include the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity, as well as formal philosophies of history and the forms of histories implicit in individual and community experience. The medium specific use of time and history are examined with regard to song, image, film, oral narration, and legal discourse.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Tyrus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Tyrus Miller, Temporality in the Long Run, Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations, Shapes of Modernity, “To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back, Contributors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature and Provostof Cowell Collegeat the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz. He is the author of Late Modernism:Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the WorldWars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and theNeo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern UniversityPress, 2008).