{"product_id":"shapes-of-time-9781501772825","title":"Shapes of Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShapes of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought.\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of timebeyond those of historicism and nineteenth-century philosophies of historyat the boundary between secular and theological discourses. By analyzing canonical works of German modernismthose of Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musilhe identifies the ways in which spatial imagery and metaphors were employed to both separate the end of history from a narrative framework and to map the liminal relation between history and eschatology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on theories and practices as disparate as constructivism, non-Euclidean geometry, photography, and urban architecture, \u003ci\u003eShapes of Time\u003c\/i\u003e presents original connections between modernism, theology, and mathematics as played out within the canon of twentieth-century German letters. Concep\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409375633751,"sku":"9781501772825","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501772825.jpg?v=1730506587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shapes-of-time-9781501772825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}