E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
Baumbach / Henningsen / Oschema The Fascination with Unknown Time
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-66438-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-3-319-66438-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time-past, present, and future alike-in music, film, and science fiction.
Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature at Innsbruck University, Austria. Lena Henningsen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Klaus Oschema is Professor of Medieval History at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. All editors are members or alumni of the German Young Academy (Die Junge Akademie).
