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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... considering the moment began long before the process of the PhD thesis from which this book has developed. Notebooks reveal an interest going back twenty-five years, but there was no definite philosophy behind the early thought, just a ...
... considering the moment began long before the process of the PhD thesis from which this book has developed. Notebooks reveal an interest going back twenty-five years, but there was no definite philosophy behind the early thought, just a ...
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... with them, and as I traced the development of the concept into the existentialism of the 20th century I came to consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. At dinner, with friends, I would attempt to explain my.
... with them, and as I traced the development of the concept into the existentialism of the 20th century I came to consider the moment to be one of its core concepts. At dinner, with friends, I would attempt to explain my.
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... then, the Augenblick will stay with me; in thinking of the moment as a process, I can consider it as something always present, always still in progress. Foreword The Augenblick, or 'moment', literally 'in the blink of.
... then, the Augenblick will stay with me; in thinking of the moment as a process, I can consider it as something always present, always still in progress. Foreword The Augenblick, or 'moment', literally 'in the blink of.
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... consider what it means to live properly 'in the moment', to in fact be in the moment: Augenblicklich describes an alternative and authentic way of being. Heidegger asserts that there are certain rare moments of a special intensity which ...
... consider what it means to live properly 'in the moment', to in fact be in the moment: Augenblicklich describes an alternative and authentic way of being. Heidegger asserts that there are certain rare moments of a special intensity which ...
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... considering the concept as Eternal Recurrence rather than Return, we can soften the idea to mean that although things come ... consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of ...
... considering the concept as Eternal Recurrence rather than Return, we can soften the idea to mean that although things come ... consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought. Such a hiatus must give way, and the pause of ...
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