Augenblick
The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century Western Philosophy
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Augenblick
The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century Western Philosophy
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Of Time and The Eternal, Søren Kierkegaardâs Moment [Ăieblik]
- 2 The Gateway named Augenblick: its place in Friedrich Nietzscheâs concept of Eternal Return
- 3 Karl Jaspersâ âpure eyeâ of the âfleeting momentâ
- 4 Martin Heideggerâs Augenblick as âmoment of visionâ, and the Redemption of Being
- 5 Henri Cartier-Bressonâs Images Ă la Sauvette [Images on the Run], and the Image as Still
- 6 A Decisive Epoch and the âExistential Momentâ [der Augenblick der Existenz] in Art
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index