03222nam 22006495 450 991025509230332120230810192458.09783319664385331966438710.1007/978-3-319-66438-5(CKB)4100000001039528(DE-He213)978-3-319-66438-5(MiAaPQ)EBC5122226(Perlego)3497377(EXLCZ)99410000000103952820171102d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Fascination with Unknown Time /edited by Sibylle Baumbach, Lena Henningsen, Klaus Oschema1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XXI, 300 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.) 9783319664378 3319664379 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time-past, present, and future alike-in music, film, and science fiction.CultureStudy and teachingCultureLiteraturePhilosophyIntellectual lifeHistoryPhilosophy of mindCultural TheoryGlobal and International CultureLiterary TheoryIntellectual HistoryPhilosophy of MindCultureStudy and teaching.Culture.LiteraturePhilosophy.Intellectual lifeHistory.Philosophy of mind.Cultural Theory.Global and International Culture.Literary Theory.Intellectual History.Philosophy of Mind.306.01Baumbach Sibylleedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtHenningsen Lenaedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtOschema Klausedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910255092303321The Fascination with Unknown Time2119207UNINA