Is Time Out of Joint? by Aleida Assmann
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureand their relationship to the presentbeen 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...Superbly translated by Sarah Clift, Is Time out of Joint? produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources
* Cambridge University Press *Assmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature
* Journal of European Studies *Aleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, Is Time Out of Joint? combines pithiness with creativity.
* International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society *Aleida Assmann's Is Time out of Joint? has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies.
* Memory Studies *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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501742439 |
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| Title | Is Time Out of Joint? |
| Author | Aleida Assmann |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2020-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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