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Our Broad Present

Paperback • 2014 • English

Our Broad Present

By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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About the book

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, exper...Show more

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9780231163613

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Our Broad Present

Format

Paperback

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