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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... question, as to whether a moment or event can be repeated arises in Kierkegaard. He establishes that a temporal event cannot be repeated no matter how much we might desire to have it again. However, there is a 'repetition' in a ...
... question, as to whether a moment or event can be repeated arises in Kierkegaard. He establishes that a temporal event cannot be repeated no matter how much we might desire to have it again. However, there is a 'repetition' in a ...
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... question of what kind of life one leads that matters but the subjective one of how one leads 1 rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger, between good and evil (Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 180. 2 Søren kierkegaard's Journals and ...
... question of what kind of life one leads that matters but the subjective one of how one leads 1 rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger, between good and evil (Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 180. 2 Søren kierkegaard's Journals and ...
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... question of whether and in what sense a moment can be repeated in the same way, emerging from a temporal into a spiritual matter. Similarly, the concept of human, 'erotic' love in Kierkegaard's Works of love passes through stages in its ...
... question of whether and in what sense a moment can be repeated in the same way, emerging from a temporal into a spiritual matter. Similarly, the concept of human, 'erotic' love in Kierkegaard's Works of love passes through stages in its ...
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... questions and explore ideas in a hypothetical manner. The authors are psychologically different individuals and the works are from their own particular perspective. For example, Johannes Climacus' point of view in relation to ...
... questions and explore ideas in a hypothetical manner. The authors are psychologically different individuals and the works are from their own particular perspective. For example, Johannes Climacus' point of view in relation to ...
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... question of whether the historical event of the incarnation can have significance for man's 'eternal consciousness'. In this dialogue with himself Climacus puts up objections which he anticipates from his readers at the same time as ...
... question of whether the historical event of the incarnation can have significance for man's 'eternal consciousness'. In this dialogue with himself Climacus puts up objections which he anticipates from his readers at the same time as ...
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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