Shapes of time : history and eschatology in the modernist imagination /
"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linea...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2023.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv36mk8rv |
Table of Contents:
- Constructivism, mathematics, and the space of history
- The eschatological limit: spatial form in Karl Barth's dialectical theology
- The arc of history: Franz Rosenzweig's figures of time and eternity
- Temporal exterritoriality: Siegfried Kracauer and the shape of history
- Images without end: Robert Musil's narrative ruptures
- Epilogue: the ends of modernism.