Augenblick : the concept of the 'decisive moment' in 19th- and 20th-century western philosophy
Augenblick, 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
1 online resource (xv, 192 pages)
9781315568317, 9781317177395, 9781317177388, 9781317177401, 1315568314, 1317177398, 131717738X, 1317177401
950005735
Print version :
1. Of time and the eternal, Søren Kierkegaards moment
2. The gateway named Augenblick : its place in Friedrich Nietzsches concept of eternal return
3. Karl Jaspers' 'pure eye' of the 'fleeting moment'
4. Martin Heidegger's Augenblick as 'moment of vision', and the redemption of being
5. Henri Cartier-Bresson's Images à la sauvette [Images on the run], the Image as still
6. A decisive epoch and an 'existential moment' [der Augenblick der Existenz] in art
Originally published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing