Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime /

Is time out of joint? : on the rise and fall of the modern time regime /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Assmann, Aleida, author.
Uniform title:	Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen?. English
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 251 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Signale transfer : German thought in translation Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subject:	Time. Time in literature. History -- Philosophy. History -- Philosophy. Time. Time in literature. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12373129

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Other authors / contributors:	Clift, Sarah, translator.
ISBN:	9781501742446 1501742450 1501742442 9781501742453 9781501742439
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the original German into English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020).
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Assmann, Aleida. Is time out of joint? Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020 9781501742439

Table of 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.