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
... sense of knowing or understanding. Augenblick translated as 'glance of the eye' gives us Heidegger's 'moment of vision', a term related to sight or insight einblick] and the more mysterious connotation 1 In this I am following rüdiger ...
... sense of knowing or understanding. Augenblick translated as 'glance of the eye' gives us Heidegger's 'moment of vision', a term related to sight or insight einblick] and the more mysterious connotation 1 In this I am following rüdiger ...
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... sense. The telos is not outside but within oneself, as the source, also as an eternal or transcendent element. The Augenblick discloses the possibilities which belong to one's 'ownmost' self whose possibilities recur, Heidegger asserts ...
... sense. The telos is not outside but within oneself, as the source, also as an eternal or transcendent element. The Augenblick discloses the possibilities which belong to one's 'ownmost' self whose possibilities recur, Heidegger asserts ...
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... sense and in an elevated, 'eternal' sense. This double meaning is characteristic of Kierkegaard's oeuvre: everything truly Christian, he writes, 'has a double meaning' and as a result, we shall see, this produces a third factor, or ...
... sense and in an elevated, 'eternal' sense. This double meaning is characteristic of Kierkegaard's oeuvre: everything truly Christian, he writes, 'has a double meaning' and as a result, we shall see, this produces a third factor, or ...
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... 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 development to a higher/deeper ...
... 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 development to a higher/deeper ...
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... sense as the moment of the incarnation of Christ and its consequent moment of 'subjective appropriation', we find its culmination in a more 'replete sense' as 'an atom of eternity' or the 'fulness of time'. The concept of anxiety is ...
... sense as the moment of the incarnation of Christ and its consequent moment of 'subjective appropriation', we find its culmination in a more 'replete sense' as 'an atom of eternity' or the 'fulness of time'. The concept of anxiety is ...
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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