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 viii
... moment has broad appeal. Many people have pointed out to me the centrality of the moment in astern philosophy 'one of our years is as a blink of an eye to Brahma'], and particularly in Zen Buddhism there are distinct counterparts in ...
... moment has broad appeal. Many people have pointed out to me the centrality of the moment in astern philosophy 'one of our years is as a blink of an eye to Brahma'], and particularly in Zen Buddhism there are distinct counterparts in ...
Page ix
... moment': great moments in sport, of the year just ending, of the twentieth century. Insurance agents urge us to protect ourselves against sudden and devastating events of life, an advertisement assures us that the acquisition of a ...
... moment': great moments in sport, of the year just ending, of the twentieth century. Insurance agents urge us to protect ourselves against sudden and devastating events of life, an advertisement assures us that the acquisition of a ...
Page xi
... moments with it. This itself is necessary to the moment: that it must pass. The moment brings the experience of temporality to our attention. We find that objective, 'outer' time as a linear progression does not conform to our ...
... moments with it. This itself is necessary to the moment: that it must pass. The moment brings the experience of temporality to our attention. We find that objective, 'outer' time as a linear progression does not conform to our ...
Page xiii
... 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, if we are properly 'attuned' and 'resolute ...
... 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, if we are properly 'attuned' and 'resolute ...
Page xiv
... moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of wonder leads to an act of surrender in the 'leap of faith ...
... moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of wonder leads to an act of surrender in the 'leap of faith ...
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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