Aleida Assmann

Gebundenes Buch

Is Time Out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

Übersetzer: Clift, Sarah

Beschreibung

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureâ and their relationship to the presentâ been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has...

Autor

Aleida Assmann was until 2014 Chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of several books that have been translated into English, including most recently, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. With her husband Jan, she was awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory and the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Produktdetails

• Signale TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781501742439
• ISBN-10: 1501742434
• Artikelnr.: 57837198