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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... notion of escaping or transcending the temporal domain through an immediate and intense experience, or in reflection. Paradoxically, and the Augenblick is nothing if not paradoxical, the temporal domain cannot be escaped completely ...
... notion of escaping or transcending the temporal domain through an immediate and intense experience, or in reflection. Paradoxically, and the Augenblick is nothing if not paradoxical, the temporal domain cannot be escaped completely ...
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... notion, that what will be, already has been and will be again countless times into eternity, is overcome in an overcoming of the self. In acceptance of the doctrine, a new person emerges with a new view of life. In considering the ...
... notion, that what will be, already has been and will be again countless times into eternity, is overcome in an overcoming of the self. In acceptance of the doctrine, a new person emerges with a new view of life. In considering the ...
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... notions of paradox and wonder as departure points for philosophical thinking. The notion of the 'synthesis' of the temporal and the eternal allowed by a moment of transition which can only defy logic in the leap of faith, take us to the ...
... notions of paradox and wonder as departure points for philosophical thinking. The notion of the 'synthesis' of the temporal and the eternal allowed by a moment of transition which can only defy logic in the leap of faith, take us to the ...
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... notion of psychology differs from ours, it is rather more of a phenomenology or an ontology, but one which presupposes 'the transcendent reality of the individual, whose intuitively discernible character reveals the existence of an ...
... notion of psychology differs from ours, it is rather more of a phenomenology or an ontology, but one which presupposes 'the transcendent reality of the individual, whose intuitively discernible character reveals the existence of an ...
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... notion of knowledge was that it was immanent within human being and had been from eternity and could therefore be drawn out by a teacher aiding its recollection anamnesis14]. However, for Christian thought, Climacus tells us, the truth ...
... notion of knowledge was that it was immanent within human being and had been from eternity and could therefore be drawn out by a teacher aiding its recollection anamnesis14]. However, for Christian thought, Climacus tells us, the truth ...
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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