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After 1945 : latency as origin of the present /
What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of conv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging and threatening inevitabilities: nuclear annihilation, global warming, overpopulation. Overwhelmed by these horizons, we live in an ever broadening present. In identifying the prevailing mood of the post-World War II decade as that of ""latency, "" Gumbrecht returns to the era when this. |
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| Notas: | "Originally published in German under the title Nach 1945." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804786164 080478616X |