03542nam 22005655 450 991082763890332120230629171955.00-231-53761-110.7312/gumb16360(CKB)3710000000133796(EBL)1634845(SSID)ssj0001264903(PQKBManifestationID)11800662(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001264903(PQKBWorkID)11235681(PQKB)10738772(DE-B1597)458343(OCoLC)889265254(OCoLC)984615990(DE-B1597)9780231537612(MiAaPQ)EBC1634845(EXLCZ)99371000000013379620190708d2014 fg engur|nu---|u||utxtccrOur Broad Present Time and Contemporary Culture /Hans Ulrich GumbrechtNew York, NY :Columbia University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (184 p.)Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-16361-4 Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Tracking a Hypothesis --1. Presence in Language or Presence Achieved Against Language? --2. A Negative Anthropology of Globalization --3. Stagnation: Temporal, Intellectual, Heavenly --4. "Lost in Focused Intensity": Spectator Sports and Strategies of Re-Enchantment --5. Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present: On Our New Relationship with Classics --6. Infinite Availability: About Hypercommunication (and Old Age) --In the Broad Present --Notes --Index --BackmatterConsidering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a "historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we live in today, which shapes our perceptions, experiences, and actions, is no longer historicist. Without fully realizing it, we now inhabit a new, unnamed space in which the "closed future" and "ever-available past" (a past we have not managed to leave behind) converge to produce an "ever-broadening present of simultaneities." This profound change to a key dimension of our existence has complex consequences for the way in which we think about ourselves and our relation to the material world. At the same time, the ubiquity of digital media has eliminated our tactile sense of physical space, altering our perception of our world. Gumbrecht draws on his mastery of the philosophy of language to enrich his everyday observations, traveling to Disneyland, a small town in Louisiana, and the center of Vienna to produce striking sketches of our broad presence in the world.Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CultureSpace and time21st centuryCivilization, ModernSpace and timeCivilization, Modern190Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich170658DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910827638903321Our Broad Present3961986UNINA