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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... present parts of this work in its stages of development in formal seminars run jointly with Murdoch and the University of Western Australia, and at the Walter's Café Work-in-Progress Group at Murdoch where I was able to read and discuss ...
... present parts of this work in its stages of development in formal seminars run jointly with Murdoch and the University of Western Australia, and at the Walter's Café Work-in-Progress Group at Murdoch where I was able to read and discuss ...
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... this book. Perhaps, 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.
... this book. Perhaps, 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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... present is essential to it. As a 'standing now', or nunc stans the moment can be thought of as time 'nullified' or stopped. It has within it all of its past and future elements and as such represents the 'everlasting'. Existentialism ...
... present is essential to it. As a 'standing now', or nunc stans the moment can be thought of as time 'nullified' or stopped. It has within it all of its past and future elements and as such represents the 'everlasting'. Existentialism ...
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... present, as Jaspers says, 'athwart of time'. In this we understand another way of transcending the ordinary temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or understanding. The idea, indeed the question, as to ...
... present, as Jaspers says, 'athwart of time'. In this we understand another way of transcending the ordinary temporal world, by uniting different events in time in a common meaning or understanding. The idea, indeed the question, as to ...
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... present' in place and in themselves. The 'moment' refers to both the seizing and what is seized – the 'still' image. The concept of the nunc stans appears as the 'captured now' of a photograph which holds the 'now' in presence. In the ...
... present' in place and in themselves. The 'moment' refers to both the seizing and what is seized – the 'still' image. The concept of the nunc stans appears as the 'captured now' of a photograph which holds the 'now' in presence. In the ...
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