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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... repetition or recurrence. Past ideas live in the 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 ...
... repetition or recurrence. Past ideas live in the 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 ...
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... Repetition' in the book Repetition deals with the question of whether and in what sense a moment can be repeated in the same way, emerging from a temporal into a spiritual matter. Similarly, the concept of human, 'erotic' love in ...
... Repetition' in the book Repetition deals with the question of whether and in what sense a moment can be repeated in the same way, emerging from a temporal into a spiritual matter. Similarly, the concept of human, 'erotic' love in ...
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... Repetition where a young man's dilemma in relation to the woman he loves is recognisably Kierkegaard's own. The original intented motto for this book was 'Drink from thine own well' 6 , the book can then be described as existential as ...
... Repetition where a young man's dilemma in relation to the woman he loves is recognisably Kierkegaard's own. The original intented motto for this book was 'Drink from thine own well' 6 , the book can then be described as existential as ...
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... repetition. and. their. unity. We have established that we are dealing with a concept of various aspects. In Fragments, the incarnation of Christ is posited as an initialising moment for all significant moments that follow. Christianity ...
... repetition. and. their. unity. We have established that we are dealing with a concept of various aspects. In Fragments, the incarnation of Christ is posited as an initialising moment for all significant moments that follow. Christianity ...
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... Repetition: An Essay in Experimental Psychology, p. 8. 48 Humbert, Kierkegaard's Use of Plato in his Analysis of the Moment in Time, p. 151. Fragments bears an epigraph which lays out a three-part question: 49 'can a historical point of ...
... Repetition: An Essay in Experimental Psychology, p. 8. 48 Humbert, Kierkegaard's Use of Plato in his Analysis of the Moment in Time, p. 151. Fragments bears an epigraph which lays out a three-part question: 49 'can a historical point of ...
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
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