Shapes of Time History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination

"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linear time guided by teleology"--

Info autore

Michael McGillen is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. His work has appeared in the journals New German Critique, The Germanic Review, and Word & Image.

Riassunto

McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time at the boundary between secular and theological discourses. He identifies the ways in which spatial imagery and metaphors were employed to both separate the end of history from a narrative framework and to map the liminal relation between history and eschatology.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Mcgillen
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 15.12.2023
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781501772825
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-7282-5
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Serie: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought