Our Broad Present
Time and Contemporary Culture
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
June 1, 2014
With this title, Gumbrecht (Albert Guerard Professor in Literature, Stanford Univ.) extends his previous work, Production of Presence. In that title, he argued that too much intellectual effort is spent in the production of meaning at the expense of the visceral encounters around us. Here, the author takes on our orientation toward time, arguing that how we live has shifted from emphasizing historical time--in which the past is left behind and the future is open to numerous possibilities--to a broad present, in which past and present lose their sharp definitions and the future is closed. The factors behind this shift include a generation of political and environmental crises that threaten to curtail human possibilities, and our current communication technologies, which blur the lines between past and present. Like Production of Presence, this book is highly personal, with Gumbrecht employing a series of loosely associated personal vignettes. In some of these he drops the insights of such thinkers as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Geog Gadamer, and Michel Foucault, so those unfamiliar with continental philosophy may occasionally find themselves a bit at sea. VERDICT This brief, provocative, and at times entertaining work should interest any serious student of literature, philosophy, or modern culture.--James Wetherbee, Wingate Univ. Libs., NC
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