Figurationen des Temporalen

Poetische, philosophische und mediale Reflexionen über Zeit

Contributions by Sarah Henze Edited by Claudia Öhlschläger Edited by Lucia Perrone Capano Series edited by Claudia Öhlschläger

Book cover: Figurationen des Temporalen

Extent: 212 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Philosophy

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9783847100492

6.42 x 9.65 inches

Price: $74.00

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Time in itself cannot be had. It can be experienced, felt, represented, narrated, measured, and constructed. Different eras develop thoroughly divergent notions and representations of temporality. But what can the historical transformation of time look like? This is where the significance of aesthetics comes into play. The arts enable time to be experienced differently than the real world: in how it is composed, expanded, realized, postponed, eternalized, and paradoxically juxtaposed.


Zeit >an sich< ist nicht zu haben, sie lasst sich erfahren, empfinden, darstellen, erzahlen, messen und konstruieren. Verschiedene Epochen entwerfen divergierende Vorstellungen von Temporalitat. Wie konnen historische Transformationen von Zeit aussehen? Hier kommt die Asthetik ins Spiel: In den Kunsten lasst sich Zeiterfahrung verdichten, dehnen, vergegenwartigen, aufschieben und verewigen. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes analysieren Zeiterfahrung in poetischer, philosophischer und medialer Perspektive. Sie stellen die moderne Erfahrung der Ungebundenheit von Zeit in den Vordergrund, aber auch den Formungswillen, der aus der Erfahrung der Phanomenalitat, der Transgressivitat sowie dem Ephemeren von Zeit entsteht. Es ist vorzugsweise die Aufgabe der Literatur und der Kunste, fluchtige Momente auf Dauer zu stellen, ihre Evidenzen und Paradoxien auszuleuchten und ihnen damit eine asthetische Form zu verleihen, die Differenz nicht loscht, sondern sie zum Modus der Intensitat werden lasst. Time 'in itself' cannot be had. It can be experienced, felt, represented, narrated, measured, and constructed. Different eras develop thoroughly divergent notions and representations of temporality. But what can the historical transformation of time look like? This is where the significance of aesthetics comes into play. The arts enable time to be experienced differently than the real world: in how it is composed, expanded, realized, postponed, eternalized, and paradoxically juxtaposed. The contributions in this volume, which are to be read comparatively and which analyze the experience of time from poetic, philosophical, and medial perspectives, place the modern experience of temporal detachment in the foreground. Furthermore, they emphasize the will to shape temporality, which stems from the experience of time's phenomenological, transgressive, and ephemeral nature. It is particularly the task of literature and the arts to capture and preserve fleeting moments and to highlight not only their critical value but also their paradoxes. In doing so, these works of art create an aesthetic form that does not eliminate difference but rather transforms it into a mode of intensity.

  • Contributions by Sarah Henze
  • Edited by Claudia Öhlschläger
  • Edited by Lucia Perrone Capano
  • Series edited by Claudia Öhlschläger