Politics of time : modernity and avant-garde / Peter Osborne.

Author/creator Osborne, Peter, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Verso, [2011]
Descriptionxv, 272 pages ; 20 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRadical thinkers
Radical thinkers. ^A720705
Contents Modernity : a different time. Modernity as experience and misrecognition : Berman and Anderson ; From Neue Zeit to Neuzeit : Koselleck's historical semantics ; The quality of modernity : homogenization, differentiation and abstraction ; Modernity as project : Habermas, Foucault, enlightenment ; Differential time and conjunctural analysis : Althusser and the Annales -- One time, one history? Conditions of possibility : the transcendental path ; Let history judge : the immanent road ; Difference against development ; Hegel's failure : end of history, end of time ; Time and narrative : phenomenological ontology ; Present or instant? The time of the soul and the time of the world ; Historical time : ontology and narrative mediation ; Being-towards-death, being-towards-history ; Ordinary time or cosmological time? Nature and the social -- Death and recognition. Being-there-with-others : the dialectic of recognition ; Trial by death ; From recognition to identification : Hegel and Lacan ; "Afterwardsness" and the death drive ; Primary identification : Kristeva's imaginary father ; In the beginning was the bond : Jessica Benjamin or Jean Laplanche? ; Timelessness, death, and the unconscious ; Psychoanalysis, temporality, history -- Modernity, eternity, tradition. Exteriority and transcendence : Levinas's eschatology ; Outside or end? Totality, infinity, others ; The eternity of the classical : Gadamer's hermeneutics ; Historiography and the shattering of tradition ; Historicism as bad modernity ; Quasi-messianic interruption : images of redemption ; Montage, mediation, apocalypse : towards a new narrativity -- Avant-garde and everyday. Conservative revolution : fascism as reactionary modernism ; Vision and decision : existence as repetition (against decisionism) ; Repetition or remembrance? ; From Marxism to Surrealism : "the mystery in the everyday" ; The verso of modernity : from everydayness to historical life.
General noteTitle from cover: The politics of time: modernity and avant-garde.
General noteReprint.
General note"This edition first published by Verso 1995"--T.p. verso.
General notePart of "Radical Thinkers Set 5"--Publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-260) and index.
ISBN9781844676736 (pbk)
ISBN1844676730 (pbk)

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