Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture

by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Book Overview

Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a "historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231163614
• ISBN13: 9780231163613
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher