Time Passing

Modernity and Nostalgia

By: Sylviane Agacinski, Jody Gladding (Translator)

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Hardcover | 12 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience the mutability of time. We feel it expand and contract, speed up and slow down, as it bends to the imperatives of memory, money, and the media. In our own time (itself a pregnant phrase) we have witnessed a disengagement with the past even as technological advances have allowed us to capture and reproduce past time as never before. How are we to make sense of this paradox?

In this wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of time, Sylvaine Agacinski weaves together discussions of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, Baudelaire, Barthes, and especially Walter Benjamin -- her model for the modern "passer of time" -- as she traces a time line of the philosophy of time. After examining how shifting attitudes toward the passage of time have affected everything from art criticism to the development of photography to the rise of modernism itself, Agacinski concludes by proposing a rethinking of democracy that emphasizes patience in the face of our current temporal frenzy.

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Starting from the observation that 'passing' has become our way of being, that henceforth everything seems impermanent and unstable, Sylviane Agacinski tries to clarify from many different perspectives 'the ethic of the ephemeral' of this age, so elusive because it is transient and ungrounded. Along the way, she invents a style for her reflections that is both fresh and spare, and leads effortlessly from metaphysics to politics, passing through an original analysis of the aesthetic that belongs to photography. Le Monde Agacinski's essayistic style shifts focus from the metaphysics of temporality via the aesthetic status of photography, to the politics of mass media... Recommended. Choice a remarkably candid and provocative assessment...probing analysis -- Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University Modern Age

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Time & Chronology Society & Culture Social Groups Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Translator's Note	p. ix
The Western Hour	p. 3
Passage	p. 11
Tests of Time
The Retreat of the Eternal	p. 25
Movement	p. 33
Un passeur de temps: Walter Benjamin	p. 49
The Time of Images
Historical Polemic: The Modernity of Photography	p. 65
The Epoch of Phantoms	p. 89
Anachronisms of Art: Style and Medium	p. 105
Political Time
Patience and Democracy	p. 139
Media Time	p. 161
Notes	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 197
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