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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... things come or exist again the same in some sense, they come in variations. Acceptance of the doctrine as Eternal Recurrence, allows a connection to the eternal which is one of renewal rather than terror. In this way there is some ...
... things come or exist again the same in some sense, they come in variations. Acceptance of the doctrine as Eternal Recurrence, allows a connection to the eternal which is one of renewal rather than terror. In this way there is some ...
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... things, all give way to the eternal. The interpretations of moment, freed for the purposes of reflection from temporal constraints yet correspondingly always dependent on the temporal, allow Kierkegaard to posit a collapsing of time ...
... things, all give way to the eternal. The interpretations of moment, freed for the purposes of reflection from temporal constraints yet correspondingly always dependent on the temporal, allow Kierkegaard to posit a collapsing of time ...
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... things. To say that something is novel or 'of the moment' is to say it is a product of the time, it is a new thing although perhaps with the connotation that it will as soon be past and forgotten. 29 Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety ...
... things. To say that something is novel or 'of the moment' is to say it is a product of the time, it is a new thing although perhaps with the connotation that it will as soon be past and forgotten. 29 Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety ...
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... things in the world, and by extension philosophy which concerns the objective world cannot describe a moment in relation to the eternal because it lacks the 'spirit' of subjective expression, he gives an example: 33 Ibid., p. 87. On the ...
... things in the world, and by extension philosophy which concerns the objective world cannot describe a moment in relation to the eternal because it lacks the 'spirit' of subjective expression, he gives an example: 33 Ibid., p. 87. On the ...
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... things undecided maintains its paradoxical and transcendent level, the either/or question is not answered, and the text remains open to new interpretations. Meaning is neither lost nor particularly distorted by Swenson's distinctions ...
... things undecided maintains its paradoxical and transcendent level, the either/or question is not answered, and the text remains open to new interpretations. Meaning is neither lost nor particularly distorted by Swenson's distinctions ...
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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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