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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Page vii
... considering the moment began long before the process of the PhD thesis from which this book has developed. Notebooks reveal an interest going back twenty-five years, but there was no definite philosophy behind the early thought, just a ...
... considering the moment began long before the process of the PhD thesis from which this book has developed. Notebooks reveal an interest going back twenty-five years, but there was no definite philosophy behind the early thought, just a ...
Page viii
... consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. at dinner, with friends, I would attempt to explain my project, that there may be something which can be called a 'moment', a 'decisive moment'. 'Doesn't everyone know that?' was the ...
... consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. at dinner, with friends, I would attempt to explain my project, that there may be something which can be called a 'moment', a 'decisive moment'. 'Doesn't everyone know that?' was the ...
Page ix
... stay with me; in thinking of the moment as a process, I can consider it as something always present, always still in progress. This page has been left blank intentionally Foreword The Augenblick, Preface and Acknowledgements ix.
... stay with me; in thinking of the moment as a process, I can consider it as something always present, always still in progress. This page has been left blank intentionally Foreword The Augenblick, Preface and Acknowledgements ix.
Page xii
... or the fitting time for action underpins the Augenblick, it denotes a decisive, critical point dependent on one who has the skill and wherewithal to act. Following Kierkegaard, our philosophers consider what it means to live Augenblick xii.
... or the fitting time for action underpins the Augenblick, it denotes a decisive, critical point dependent on one who has the skill and wherewithal to act. Following Kierkegaard, our philosophers consider what it means to live Augenblick xii.
Page xiii
... consider what it means to live properly 'in the moment', to in fact be in the moment: Augenblicklich describes an alternative and authentic way of being. Heidegger asserts that there are certain rare moments of a special intensity which ...
... consider what it means to live properly 'in the moment', to in fact be in the moment: Augenblicklich describes an alternative and authentic way of being. Heidegger asserts that there are certain rare moments of a special intensity which ...
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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