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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... Nietzsche's concept of ternal return 3 Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye'of the 'fleeting moment' Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye' of the 'fleeting moment' 4 Martin Heidegger's Martin Heidegger's Augenblick as 'moment of vision', and the redemption of ...
... Nietzsche's concept of ternal return 3 Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye'of the 'fleeting moment' Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye' of the 'fleeting moment' 4 Martin Heidegger's Martin Heidegger's Augenblick as 'moment of vision', and the redemption of ...
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... Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Dr. MacDonald persuaded me that a deeper look into its influence on Nietzsche's work was worth taking. We discovered that the influence on the imagery of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is strongly ...
... Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Dr. MacDonald persuaded me that a deeper look into its influence on Nietzsche's work was worth taking. We discovered that the influence on the imagery of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is strongly ...
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... Nietzsche as the beginnings of existentialism lie with them, and as I traced the development of the concept into the existentialism of the 20th century I came to consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. at dinner, with ...
... Nietzsche as the beginnings of existentialism lie with them, and as I traced the development of the concept into the existentialism of the 20th century I came to consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. at dinner, with ...
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... Nietzsche are the sourceformany majorexistential ideas and the Augenblick, although I admit to partiality, is a core existential idea. Tracing its development from its sources in the nineteenth century into the work of the existential ...
... Nietzsche are the sourceformany majorexistential ideas and the Augenblick, although I admit to partiality, is a core existential idea. Tracing its development from its sources in the nineteenth century into the work of the existential ...
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... Nietzsche's unfolding of the concept which provides the departure point for consecutive interpretations. There is no direct progression of the concept from Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, unlike the cases of Jaspers and Heidegger, who derive ...
... Nietzsche's unfolding of the concept which provides the departure point for consecutive interpretations. There is no direct progression of the concept from Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, unlike the cases of Jaspers and Heidegger, who derive ...
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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