Augenblick: The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century Western PhilosophyAugenblick, meaning literally 'In the blink of an eye', describes a 'decisive moment' in time that is both fleeting yet momentously eventful, even epoch-makingly significant. In this book Koral Ward investigates the development of the concept into one of the core ideas in Western existential philosophy alongside such concepts as anxiety and individual freedom. Ward examines the whole extent of the idea of the 'decisive moment', in which an individual's entire life-project is open to a radical reorientation. From its inception in Kierkegaard's works to the writings of Jaspers and Heidegger, she draws on a vast array of sources beyond just the standard figures of 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, finding ideas and examples in photography, cinema, music, art, and the modern novel. |
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... Christianity, but it is from Kierkegaard that the moment receives its meaning for existentialism. The elevation of the concept from the 'external' to the 'internal' domain, from a moment of experience in ordinary temporality to a ...
... Christianity, but it is from Kierkegaard that the moment receives its meaning for existentialism. The elevation of the concept from the 'external' to the 'internal' domain, from a moment of experience in ordinary temporality to a ...
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... Christianity is 'lower' than Kierkegaard's, that is, not from a position of faith, he even declares that he is not a Christian. The expression itself: 'in the blink of an eye' Øieblik] is the real departure point in these considerations ...
... Christianity is 'lower' than Kierkegaard's, that is, not from a position of faith, he even declares that he is not a Christian. The expression itself: 'in the blink of an eye' Øieblik] is the real departure point in these considerations ...
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... Christianity closer to me'.11 The concept of Anxiety reflects Kierkegaard's personal history, concerned as it is with existential anxiety, a state to which he was no stranger. Though called a work of psychology, Kierkegaard's notion of ...
... Christianity closer to me'.11 The concept of Anxiety reflects Kierkegaard's personal history, concerned as it is with existential anxiety, a state to which he was no stranger. Though called a work of psychology, Kierkegaard's notion of ...
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... Christianity is not from a position of faith, but from a 'pagan' view which develops through the progression of an unfolding hypothesis toward a position of faith. Kierkegaard's use of the word guden or 'the god' indicates that it is a ...
... Christianity is not from a position of faith, but from a 'pagan' view which develops through the progression of an unfolding hypothesis toward a position of faith. Kierkegaard's use of the word guden or 'the god' indicates that it is a ...
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... Christianity, he argues, replaces this Platonic metaphysical view and gives meaning to the temporal events which form human history, 'replacing pursuit of a metaphysical “now” or “eternal now” with an “existential 'now'” of personal ...
... Christianity, he argues, replaces this Platonic metaphysical view and gives meaning to the temporal events which form human history, 'replacing pursuit of a metaphysical “now” or “eternal now” with an “existential 'now'” of personal ...
Contents
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its place in Friedrich Nietzsches concept of Eternal Return | 35 |
3 Karl Jaspers pure eye of the fleeting moment | 69 |
4 Martin Heideggers Augenblick as moment of vision and the Redemption of Being | 97 |
5 Henri CartierBressons Images à la Sauvette Images on the Run and the Image as Still | 125 |
6 A Decisive Epoch and the Existential Moment der Augenblick der Existenz in Art | 149 |
Conclusion | 175 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Index | 187 |
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