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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... movement essential to change.) Jaspers' concept of the 'boundary situation' describes such experiences which come to us direct and unmediated from the core of our existence. All that one can do is 'surrender' to such an experience and ...
... movement essential to change.) Jaspers' concept of the 'boundary situation' describes such experiences which come to us direct and unmediated from the core of our existence. All that one can do is 'surrender' to such an experience and ...
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... in various works also pass through stages in their own development toward a higher, and deeper meaning. Fragments is an example of this movement in both its Socratic form and its content, which is of especial interest to.
... in various works also pass through stages in their own development toward a higher, and deeper meaning. Fragments is an example of this movement in both its Socratic form and its content, which is of especial interest to.
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... movement of vanishing 'now' instants in the succession of time. The temporal moment of time must not be discounted as we have said, it is always implicated in any understanding of the 'eternal'. Climacus tells us that even as 'an ...
... movement of vanishing 'now' instants in the succession of time. The temporal moment of time must not be discounted as we have said, it is always implicated in any understanding of the 'eternal'. Climacus tells us that even as 'an ...
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... movement of transition as the development of a person as a changing individual or of reflection which brings something new to light. Kierkegaard intends it as a 'pathetic' rather than 'dialectical' movement belonging to the realm of ...
... movement of transition as the development of a person as a changing individual or of reflection which brings something new to light. Kierkegaard intends it as a 'pathetic' rather than 'dialectical' movement belonging to the realm of ...
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... movement between different realms. (Swenson's translation has: 'a twilight zone' which is 'contemporary with every moment or phase [Moment[er]]', 95 a phrase that gives the impression of a somewhere neither here nor there, neither one ...
... movement between different realms. (Swenson's translation has: 'a twilight zone' which is 'contemporary with every moment or phase [Moment[er]]', 95 a phrase that gives the impression of a somewhere neither here nor there, neither one ...
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