Shapes of time : history and eschatology in the modernist imagination /
"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linea...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2023.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linear time guided by teleology"-- |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 150177283X 9781501772849 1501772848 9781501772832 |
