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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... temporal world. In its most basic interpretation the Augenblick describes an experience of a fleeting but momentous event, an occurrence usually accompanied by an altered perception of time, either as condensed and swiftly passing or ...
... temporal world. In its most basic interpretation the Augenblick describes an experience of a fleeting but momentous event, an occurrence usually accompanied by an altered perception of time, either as condensed and swiftly passing or ...
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... 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. Neither can the Augenblick be accessed, in ...
... 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. Neither can the Augenblick be accessed, in ...
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... temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or understanding. The idea, indeed the question, as to whether a moment or event can be repeated arises in Kierkegaard. He establishes that a temporal event cannot ...
... temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or understanding. The idea, indeed the question, as to whether a moment or event can be repeated arises in Kierkegaard. He establishes that a temporal event cannot ...
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... temporal and the eternal in Christ. The experience of a moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of ...
... temporal and the eternal in Christ. The experience of a moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of ...
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... temporal 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 ...
... temporal 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 ...
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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