His book begins with a consideration of the main aspects of modernity and develops though a series of critical engagements with the major twentieth-century positions in the philosophy of history. He concludes with a fascinating history of the avant-garde intervention into the temporality of everyday life in surrealism, the situationists and the work of Henri Lefebvre.' - from publisher's website.
Includes a select bibliography and an index.
Onsite
English
1995
272
9781844676736
1
monograph
Modernity: A Different Time
Modernity as experience and misrecognition: Berman and Anderson
From Neue Zeit to
The quality of modernity: homogenization, differentiation and abstraction
Modernity as project: Habermas, Foucault, Enlightenment
Differential time and conjectural analysis: Althusser and the Annales
One Time, One History?
Conditions of possibility: the transcendental path
Let history judge: the immanent road
Difference against development
Hegel's failure: end of history, end of time
Time and Narrative: phenomenological ontology and narrative mediation
Being-towards-death. being-towards-history
Ordinary time or cosmological time? Nature and the social
Death and Recognition
Being-there-with-others: the dialectic of recognition
Trial by death
From recognition to identification: Hegel and Lacan
'Afterwardness' and the death drive
Primary identification: Kristeva's imaginary father
In the beginning was the bond: Jessica Benjamin or Jean Laplanche?
Timelessness, death, and the unconscious
Psychoanalysis, temporality, history
Modernity, Eternity, Tradition
Exteriority and transcendence: Levina's eschatology
Outside or end? Totality, infinity, others
The eternity of the classical: Gadamer's hermeneutics
Historiography and the shattering of tradition
Historicism as bad modernity
Quasi-messianic interruption: images of redemption
Montage, mediation, apocalypse: towards a new narrativity
Avant-Garde and Everyday
Conservative revolution:facism as reactionary modernism
Vision adn decision: existence as repetition (against decisionism)
Repetition or remembrance?
From Marxism to Surrealism: 'the mystery in the everyday'
Ther verso of modernity: from everydayness to historical life
The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde
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