"The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck in 1800 as the temporalisation ('Verzeitlichung') of all areas of human knowledge and experience, the concept of critical time...
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"The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck in 1800 as the temporalisation ('Verzeitlichung') of all areas of human knowledge and experience, the concept of critical time continues to intrigue researchers across the arts and humanities. This volume combines theoretical and critical approaches to temporality with case studies on the engagement with the modern sense of time in German literature, visual art and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributions explore key areas in the cultural history of time: time in art and aesthetic theory, the intellectual history of time, the relationship of time and space in literature and visual art, the politics of time and memory, and the poetics of time. Essays question the focus on acceleration in recent critical discourse by also revealing the contrapuntal fascination with slowness and ecstatic moments, notions of polyphonous time and simultaneity, the dialectic of time and space, and complex aesthetic temporalities breaking with modern time-regimes."-- Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction (Dirk Göttsche) -- Part I. Time in Art and Critical Theory -- The Philosophy of Time and the Implications from Renaissance Art (Gabriele Neher and Jonathan Tallant) -- Acceleration and Retardation: Temporality, Modernist Poetics and Modernity in the Work of Hans Blumenberg and Viktor Shklovsky (Jerome Carroll) -- Part II. The Intellectual History of Time -- "The Grand Poem of our Time": Carlyle, ""Zeitgeist and his History of the French Revolution"" (Maike Oergel) -- Revolution, History and Time in Benjamin and Sloterdijk (Brian Elliott) Part III. The Temporality of Literary Genres -- Formbewusstsein als Zeitbewusstsein. Die Anfänge moderner Zeitpoetik im 18. Jahrhundert (Dirk Oschmann) -- The "inexorable law of perpetual mutation": Motherwell and Goethe on the Tradition of the Ballad (Eva Axer) -- Part IV. Chronotopes: Time and Space -- The Temporality of Hospitality (Ralf Simon) -- "Of Time and the City": Contemporary Visual Culture and the Times of Berlin (Simon Ward) -- Part V. Time and the Politics of Memory Eigenlogische und historische Zeit in den transmedialen Collagen Herta Müllers. Memoria nach 1989 (Iulia-Karin Patrut) -- On Re-describing History in Christoph Ransmayr's ""Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis"" and Lilian Faschinger's ""Stadt der Verlierer"" (Ulrich Bach) -- Part VI. The Poetics of Time in Contemporary German Literature -- Zeitpoetik in Kleiner Prosa der Gegenwart (Dirk Göttsche) -- The Ethics of Time: Stasis and Dilation in Thomas Lehr's 42 and Svend Age Madsen's ""Days with Diam"" (Sabine Zubarik) Das Ende der Zeit. Die Darstellung der Apokalypse in Thomas Glavinics ""Die Arbeit der Nacht"" und Cormac McCarthys ""The Road"" (Sascha Seiler) -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
