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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... speak of. These individual stories, interesting as they were and nicely descriptive of various aspects of the concept, were not included in this book, but it does point to the pervasiveness of the idea. Almost every weekend newspaper ...
... speak of. These individual stories, interesting as they were and nicely descriptive of various aspects of the concept, were not included in this book, but it does point to the pervasiveness of the idea. Almost every weekend newspaper ...
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... speaks of the very nature of human being as momentary and finite existence. Human being's existence is momentary, but it is so, according to Heidegger, in a momentous way, because it partakes in the transcendence of Being itself. The ...
... speaks of the very nature of human being as momentary and finite existence. Human being's existence is momentary, but it is so, according to Heidegger, in a momentous way, because it partakes in the transcendence of Being itself. The ...
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... speaks of the phrase thus: the moment 'is a figurative expression and therefore not easy to deal with. However, it is a beautiful word to consider. Nothing is as swift as the blink of an eye, and yet it is commensurable with the content ...
... speaks of the phrase thus: the moment 'is a figurative expression and therefore not easy to deal with. However, it is a beautiful word to consider. Nothing is as swift as the blink of an eye, and yet it is commensurable with the content ...
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... speaks of the parables of the scriptures as using a language which can convey 'the eternal': 'Under many metaphors and with many concepts Holy Scriptures seek in various ways to give our earthly existence festivity and dignity, to win ...
... speaks of the parables of the scriptures as using a language which can convey 'the eternal': 'Under many metaphors and with many concepts Holy Scriptures seek in various ways to give our earthly existence festivity and dignity, to win ...
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... speaks of the suffering of life, which even though it might have a temporal extension of many years, is essentially momentary in relation to the eternal. In the Journals he reiterates that what is said about momentary suffering is true ...
... speaks of the suffering of life, which even though it might have a temporal extension of many years, is essentially momentary in relation to the eternal. In the Journals he reiterates that what is said about momentary suffering is true ...
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