Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture

by Anne Fuchs

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501735101
• ISBN13: 9781501735103
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher