{"product_id":"the-moment-of-rupture-humberto-beck-9780812251593","title":"The Moment of Rupture: Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks, \u003ci\u003ekairos\u003c\/i\u003e, the time in which exceptional, unrepeatable events occurred, was opposed to \u003ci\u003echronos\u003c\/i\u003e, measurable, quantitative, and uniform time. In \u003ci\u003eThe Moment of Rupture\u003c\/i\u003e, Humberto Beck argues that during the years of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism in Germany, the notion of the instant migrated from philosophy and aesthetics into politics and became a conceptual framework for the interpretation of collective historical experience that, in turn, transformed the subjective perception of time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Beck, a significant juncture occurred in Germany between 1914 and 1940, when a modern tradition of reflection on the instant--spanning the poetry of Goethe, the historical self-understanding of the French Revolution, the aesthetics of early Romanticism, the philosophies of S ren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, and the artistic and literary practices of Charles Baudelaire and the avant gardes--interacted with a new experience of historical time based on rupture and abrupt discontinuity. Beck locates in this juncture three German thinkers--Ernst J?ger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin--who fused the consciousness of war, crisis, catastrophe, and revolution with the literary and philosophical formulations of the instantaneous and the sudden in order to intellectually represent an era marked by the dissolution between the extraordinary and the everyday. \u003ci\u003eThe Moment of Rupture\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how J?ger, Bloch, and Benjamin produced a constellation of figures of sudden temporality that contributed to the formation of what Beck calls a distinct \"regime of historicity,\" a mode of experiencing time based on the notion of a discontinuous present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Humberto Beck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812251598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812251593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2020","brand":"Humberto Beck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059809382655,"sku":"9780812251593","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a9ce6ac-92a2-4ff1-9fcd-a0deffbc3b94.jpg?v=1685060467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moment-of-rupture-humberto-beck-9780812251593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}