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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... spirit'. When we begin to look out for something it suddenly seems to appear everywhere; since noticing it and turning my attention to it, it has come at me from all sides. Many people with whom I have discussed the moment have had some ...
... spirit'. When we begin to look out for something it suddenly seems to appear everywhere; since noticing it and turning my attention to it, it has come at me from all sides. Many people with whom I have discussed the moment have had some ...
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... spirit'. Therefore for Kierkegaard 'plastic' art, that which renders objective representations of external things in the world, and by extension philosophy which concerns the objective world cannot describe a moment in relation to the ...
... spirit'. Therefore for Kierkegaard 'plastic' art, that which renders objective representations of external things in the world, and by extension philosophy which concerns the objective world cannot describe a moment in relation to the ...
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... spirit' to have a place within history. Spirit, Kierkegaard asserts, is lacking from Hegel's notion of history 'which one can contemplate disinterestedly'. Similarly, an 'objective' view regarding Christianity, and the given 'truths' of ...
... spirit' to have a place within history. Spirit, Kierkegaard asserts, is lacking from Hegel's notion of history 'which one can contemplate disinterestedly'. Similarly, an 'objective' view regarding Christianity, and the given 'truths' of ...
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... spirit and 'inwardness' 'only momentarily'63 and the connection with the truth must be constantly renewed. Such a truth can only be learned from a relation with God and not from a professor Kierkegaard tells us. One must not be lost in ...
... spirit and 'inwardness' 'only momentarily'63 and the connection with the truth must be constantly renewed. Such a truth can only be learned from a relation with God and not from a professor Kierkegaard tells us. One must not be lost in ...
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... spirit and an 'inwardness' which corresponds to the 'self' and is predicated as 'infinite'; while 'externality' corresponds to the 'world' and is qualified as finite.'90 90 Martinez, Roy, 'Kierkegaard's Ideal of Inward Deepening ...
... spirit and an 'inwardness' which corresponds to the 'self' and is predicated as 'infinite'; while 'externality' corresponds to the 'world' and is qualified as finite.'90 90 Martinez, Roy, 'Kierkegaard's Ideal of Inward Deepening ...
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