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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... aspects of the concept. The process of comparing translations of texts sparked a curiosity about how the translation from a philosopher's native language can affect the nuances of an idea. By returning to the original I was able to ...
... aspects of the concept. The process of comparing translations of texts sparked a curiosity about how the translation from a philosopher's native language can affect the nuances of an idea. By returning to the original I was able to ...
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... aspects of the moment, but I have confined my discussion to Western philosophy. Many have mentioned other Western philosophers who have spoken of the moment in some way, but I deliberately began with Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich ...
... aspects of the moment, but I have confined my discussion to Western philosophy. Many have mentioned other Western philosophers who have spoken of the moment in some way, but I deliberately began with Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich ...
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... aspects of the concept, were not included in this book, but it does point to the pervasiveness of the idea. Almost every weekend newspaper colour magazine has a 'moment': great moments in sport, of the year just ending, of the twentieth ...
... aspects of the concept, were not included in this book, but it does point to the pervasiveness of the idea. Almost every weekend newspaper colour magazine has a 'moment': great moments in sport, of the year just ending, of the twentieth ...
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... aspects of the Augenblick. In play in Jaspers is the concept of 'the source' [Ursprung] as the context of one's own historical situation and origins, but also that of the philosophical tradition within which one thinks and appropriates ...
... aspects of the Augenblick. In play in Jaspers is the concept of 'the source' [Ursprung] as the context of one's own historical situation and origins, but also that of the philosophical tradition within which one thinks and appropriates ...
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... aspects of their concept directly from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Yet there are some striking similarities between ... aspect of struggle, of the 'striving individual' becomes a central motif of the Augenblick,
... aspects of their concept directly from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Yet there are some striking similarities between ... aspect of struggle, of the 'striving individual' becomes a central motif of the Augenblick,
Contents
its place in Friedrich Nietzsches concept | |
Karl Jaspers pure eye of the fleeting moment | |
Martin Heideggers Augenblick as moment of vision and the Redemption | |
Henri CartierBressons Images à la Sauvette Images on the Run and the Image | |
A Decisive Epoch and the Existential Moment der Augenblick der Existenz in | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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Augenblick: The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century ... Koral Ward Limited preview - 2016 |
Augenblick: The Concept of the 'decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-century ... Koral Ward No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
Adorno Arnold Schoenberg artists aspects attunement Augenblick authentic become blink Bloch boundary situations Cartier-Bresson Christianity cipher Climacus comes Concept of Anxiety concern consider contemporary Dada Dasein decisive describes dissonance doctrine epoch Ernst Bloch essence Eternal Return event everyday everything existence existential Existenz experience expression faith Fragments Gadamer gateway glance Haoma Heidegger asserts Heidegger says Heidegger’s Henri Cartier-Bresson historical Hong human Ibid idea individual inner insight Jaspers says Jaspers tells kairos Kandinsky Karl Jaspers Kierkegaard says leap live Martin Heidegger meaning metaphysical momentary moments Murch Nietzsche Nietzsche’s notion nunc stans one’s oneself ownmost paradox past and future Paul MacDonald person Philosophy photographer possibility present question quoted realisation recognise recurrence refers relation repetition represents resolution reveals Safranski Schoenberg sense significance Søren Kierkegaard speaks spirit Stambaugh subjective temporal things thinking thought transcendent translation truth understanding unfolding vision Wallraff Wassily Kandinsky word Zarathustra Zoroastrianism