Is Time Out of Joint?: On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

by Aleida Assmann

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future--and their relationship to the present--been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501742434
• ISBN13: 9781501742439
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher