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- Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Copyright Page
- p. 5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Temporality in the Long Run
- Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations
- Shapes of Modernity
- 12. Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism
- pp. 243-260
- “To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back
- Contributors
- pp. 359-364
- Back Cover
- p. 378
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211591
Related ISBN(s)
9789639776272
MARC Record
OCLC
317550941
Pages
375
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No