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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... paradox which is inherent in the meeting of the temporal and the eternal in Christ. The experience of a moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought ...
... paradox which is inherent in the meeting of the temporal and the eternal in Christ. The experience of a moment which seems to stand out from ordinary time allows us to consider the Augenblick as a nunc stans, or a hiatus of thought ...
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... the 'fulness of time'. The concept of Anxiety is considered in its fundamental relation to the moment as are the notions of paradox and wonder as departure points for philosophical thinking. The notion of the 'synthesis'
... the 'fulness of time'. The concept of Anxiety is considered in its fundamental relation to the moment as are the notions of paradox and wonder as departure points for philosophical thinking. The notion of the 'synthesis'
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... paradox Swenson renders the sentence: 'all offense is in its essence a misunderstanding of the Moment'.42 This Moment in Smuler is Øieblikket (spaced) and the Hongs have the moment italicised, in a draft of this section, Kierkegaard has ...
... paradox Swenson renders the sentence: 'all offense is in its essence a misunderstanding of the Moment'.42 This Moment in Smuler is Øieblikket (spaced) and the Hongs have the moment italicised, in a draft of this section, Kierkegaard has ...
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... Paradox. and. the. Wonder. In Fragments, Climacus says he is 'gripped with a new amazement', with 'the god' coming into existence we have arrived at the absolute paradox, we stand 'before the wonder [Vidunderet]'. 70 Such a hypothesis as ...
... Paradox. and. the. Wonder. In Fragments, Climacus says he is 'gripped with a new amazement', with 'the god' coming into existence we have arrived at the absolute paradox, we stand 'before the wonder [Vidunderet]'. 70 Such a hypothesis as ...
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... paradox itself that makes the discovery (and is this discovery); Kierkegaard, through Climacus, asserts that the moment itself is 'the paradox', 75 it is passion and it is faith. 72 Ibid., p. 73 Kierkegaard, Fragments, Hong notes, p ...
... paradox itself that makes the discovery (and is this discovery); Kierkegaard, through Climacus, asserts that the moment itself is 'the paradox', 75 it is passion and it is faith. 72 Ibid., p. 73 Kierkegaard, Fragments, Hong notes, p ...
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