{"product_id":"homo-temporalis-nitzan-itzhak-lebovic-9781501779565","title":"Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomo Temporalis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan.\u003c\/b\u003e By analyzing the concept of time, Nitzan Lebovic explores Buber's stress on the temporality of the dialogue between I and Thou; Benjamin's now-time and \"dialectics in standstill\"; Arendt's understanding of democracy as \"natality\" or a \"permanent revolution\"; and the \"breathturn\" that informs Celan's poetry. Framing the reception of German Jewish thinking in the second half of the twentieth century as a parallel story to the rise of the modern humanities, \u003ci\u003eHomo Temporalis\u003c\/i\u003e also highlights how these foundational temporal concepts illuminate the causes of the present crisis in the humanities and its disciplinary limitations in the age of biopolitics and the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501779567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501779565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140655010047,"sku":"9781501779565","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dafac22d-9d52-4875-9749-21aef918b97a.jpg?v=1726596666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homo-temporalis-nitzan-itzhak-lebovic-9781501779565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}