After 1945 : latency as origin of the present / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.

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Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804786164
080478616X

Uniform titles:

Nach 1945. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

801/.95092 B 23

LOC classification:

PN75.G86 G86 2013

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Contents:

One Car Away from Death: An Overture; 1. Emergence of Latency? : A Generation's Beginning; 2. Forms of Latency; 3. No Exit and No Entry; 4. Bad Faith / Interrogations; 5. Derailment / Containers; 6. Effects of Latency; 7. Unconcealment of Latency? : My Story with Time; The Form of This Book; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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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"Originally published in German under the title Nach 1945."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.

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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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