{"product_id":"shapes-of-time-history-and-eschatology-in-the-modernist-imagination-9781501772818","title":"Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShapes of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought.\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time--beyond those of historicism and nineteenth-century philosophies of history--at the boundary between secular and theological discourses. By analyzing canonical works of German modernism--those of Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil--he identifies the ways in which spatial imagery and metaphors were employed to both separate the end of history from a narrative framework and to map the liminal relation between history and eschatology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on theories and practices as disparate as constructivism, non-Euclidean geometry, photography, and urban architecture, \u003ci\u003eShapes of Time\u003c\/i\u003e presents original connections between modernism, theology, and mathematics as played out within the canon of twentieth-century German letters. Concepts of temporal and spatial form, McGillen contends, contribute to the understanding not only of modernist literature but also of larger theoretical concerns within modern cultural and intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGillen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501772818","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440554774665,"sku":"9781501772818","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_cc8f4c1a-8516-4d02-b653-c95d0652bb25.jpg?v=1716239034","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shapes-of-time-history-and-eschatology-in-the-modernist-imagination-9781501772818","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}