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 xi
... one's life and we can attribute epoch-making significance to a historical event. The Augenblick speaks of the very nature of human being as momentary and finite existence. Human being's existence is momentary, but it is so, according to ...
... one's life and we can attribute epoch-making significance to a historical event. The Augenblick speaks of the very nature of human being as momentary and finite existence. Human being's existence is momentary, but it is so, according to ...
Page xii
... one's existence and life experiences, the state of human being in the contemporary situation are crucial to philosophy. Common to the 'philosophers of the moment', but especially in the case of our two 'sources', their own personal ...
... one's existence and life experiences, the state of human being in the contemporary situation are crucial to philosophy. Common to the 'philosophers of the moment', but especially in the case of our two 'sources', their own personal ...
Page xiii
... one's own future aims. Stress is placed on the necessity of resolve and decision in action in the face of the abitrary chance events and accidents of life. one who takes responsibility for their own self and actions exists in ...
... one's own future aims. Stress is placed on the necessity of resolve and decision in action in the face of the abitrary chance events and accidents of life. one who takes responsibility for their own self and actions exists in ...
Page xv
... figures of venturing beyond', their impulse to expression involves a dangerous moment of decision, one which risks one's very self in a 'Faustian Wager'. This page has been left blank intentionally Chapter one of Foreword xv.
... figures of venturing beyond', their impulse to expression involves a dangerous moment of decision, one which risks one's very self in a 'Faustian Wager'. This page has been left blank intentionally Chapter one of Foreword xv.
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... one's favourite Kierkegaardian idea to place it in importance at the centre of his oeuvre. For this writer, the moment seems especially central, and as it addresses the idea of contemporary existence and the concerns of contemporary ...
... one's favourite Kierkegaardian idea to place it in importance at the centre of his oeuvre. For this writer, the moment seems especially central, and as it addresses the idea of contemporary existence and the concerns of contemporary ...
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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Augenblick: The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century ... Koral Ward Limited preview - 2016 |
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