The Moment of Rupture : Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought.

Beck, Humberto.

The Moment of Rupture : Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought. - 1st ed. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. ©2019. - 1 online resource (217 pages) - Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series . - Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series .

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Cover -- The Moment of Rupture -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Instant from Goethe to Nietzsche: The Modern Beginnings of a Concept -- Chapter 2. The Instant of the Avant-Garde -- Chapter 3. Ernst Jünger and the Instant of Crisis -- Chapter 4. Ernst Bloch and the Temporality of the Not-Yet -- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin and the Now-Time of History -- Conclusion. Instantaneism as a Regime of Historicity -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

The Moment of Rupture demonstrates how Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin fused the consciousness of war, crisis, catastrophe, and revolution with literary and philosophical formulations of the concept of the instant, tracing the formation of a distinct mode of experiencing time based on the notion of a discontinuous present.

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