After 1945. Latentity as a source of the present
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The key question of this book: what does the 20th century look like, if you count it since 1945 - the moment of the beginning of globalization, the division of the world into East and Western blocs, the Nuremberg process and the atomic explosion in Hiroshima? The author’s look covers all continents and traces those common humanitarian processes that occurred in countries involved and not involved in the Second World War. Humbrecht believes that a modern person has changed the perception of time, he can no longer exist in the paradigm of progress, move forward and the departure of the past. According to the researcher, our time is the time of "latency", the underlying, hidden coexistence of many past and at the same time mutated beyond recognition of the image of the future. On the analysis of the most important texts (Sartra, Heidegger, Camu, Beckett, Celan, etc) and especially significant events after 1945 (Kennedy’s murder, the fall of the Berlin wall, the destruction of twin towers, etc), Humbrecht shows the emergence and development of this all-encompassing conditions that dominates to this day. The events of literature and history are combined with personal evidence that makes the problem of time a person visible on the life of an individual - from the moment he was a "grandson", to the moment when he himself becomes a "grandfather".
H.U. Humbrecht is a German -American philosopher, literary critic and cultural historian
H.U. Humbrecht is a German -American philosopher, literary critic and cultural historian
Author:
Author:Humbrecht Hans Ulrich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Series:
Series: Intellectual History
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-0783-5
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