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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... repetition or recurrence. Past ideas live in the present, as Jaspers says, 'athwart of time'. In this we understand another way of transcending the ordinary temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or ...
... repetition or recurrence. Past ideas live in the present, as Jaspers says, 'athwart of time'. In this we understand another way of transcending the ordinary temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or ...
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... repetition found in Kierkegaard. The Augenblick is concerned with the communication of a type of 'knowledge' which imparts something 'eternal'. There is a failure of human understanding in such a situation, a collision at the limit of ...
... repetition found in Kierkegaard. The Augenblick is concerned with the communication of a type of 'knowledge' which imparts something 'eternal'. There is a failure of human understanding in such a situation, a collision at the limit of ...
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... repetition' in the book Repetition deals with the 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 ...
... repetition' in the book Repetition deals with the 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 ...
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... Repetition where a young man's dilemma in relation to the woman he loves is recognisably Kierkegaard's own. The original intented motto for this book was 'Drink from thine own well'6, the book can then be described as existential as it ...
... Repetition where a young man's dilemma in relation to the woman he loves is recognisably Kierkegaard's own. The original intented motto for this book was 'Drink from thine own well'6, the book can then be described as existential as it ...
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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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