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Time-Fetishes : The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence /

"For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to 'discover' the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of universal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lukacher, Ned, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The anachrony of the time-fetish
  • From Ovid to Titian: eternal return and the cult of Bacchus and Ariadne
  • "Shakespearances"; or, the war with time
  • Anamorphic perspectives, human (im)postures, and the rhetoric of the Aevum
  • Anamorphic ghosts of time: Schopenhauer, Kant, and Hegel
  • Drive-time: eternal return and the life of the instincts in Schelling, Freud, and the Marquis de Sade
  • Playing with cinders: from Nietzsche to Derrida
  • Forgetting the umbrella; or, Heidegger and Derrida on how to say the same thing differently.