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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Tác giả chính: McGillen, Michael, 1982- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2023.
Loạt:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv36mk8rv
Mục lục:
  • 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.