{"product_id":"is-time-out-of-joint-9781501742439","title":"Is Time out of Joint","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureand their relationship to the presentbeen reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls time regime of modernity that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. \u003ci\u003eIs \u003c\/i\u003eTime Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuperbly translated by Sarah Clift, \u003ci\u003eIs Time out of Joint?\u003c\/i\u003e produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources.\u003c\/p\u003e * Cambridge University Press *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of European Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eIs Time Out of Joint?\u003c\/i\u003e combines pithiness with creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e * International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAleida Assmann's \u003ci\u003eIs Time out of Joint?\u003c\/i\u003e has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies.\u003c\/p\u003e * Memory Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Time and the Modern\u003cbr\u003e Baudelaire's Discovery of the Present\u003cbr\u003e How Long Does the Present Last?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Work on the Modern Myth of History\u003cbr\u003e Transformations in the Idea of Progress\u003cbr\u003e The Theory of Time Underlying Modern Historiography\u003cbr\u003e Modernization Theory and Theories of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e When Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western History\u003cbr\u003e The Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime\u003cbr\u003e Temporal Rupture\u003cbr\u003e The Fiction of Beginning\u003cbr\u003e Creative Destruction\u003cbr\u003e Destroying and Preserving: The Invention of the Historical\u003cbr\u003e Acceleration\u003cbr\u003e 4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Compensation Theory\u003cbr\u003e Compensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past\u003cbr\u003e 5. Is Time out of Joint?\u003cbr\u003e Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad Present\u003cbr\u003e Connections between the Past, Present, and Future\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime\u003cbr\u003e Three New Categories: Culture, Identity, Memory\u003cbr\u003e The Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible Time\u003cbr\u003e Identity Politics: Intersections between History and Memory\u003cbr\u003e Two Trends in the Politics of History\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409340113239,"sku":"9781501742439","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501742439.jpg?v=1730506478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/is-time-out-of-joint-9781501742439","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}