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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מחבר ראשי: McGillen, Michael, 1982- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2023.
סדרה:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv36mk8rv
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.