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Our Broad Present : Time and Contemporary Culture.

Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Colección:Insurrections.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a?historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we live in today, which shapes our perceptions, experiences, and actions, is no longer historicist. Without fully realizing it, we now inhabit a new
Descripción Física:1 online resource (184 pages)
ISBN:9780231537612
0231537611
0231163614
9780231163613