LEADER 03869nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910465066003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8616-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786164 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102292 035 $a(EBL)1191606 035 $a(OCoLC)849246464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000915274 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11490793 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915274 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10867142 035 $a(PQKB)10188834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1191606 035 $a(DE-B1597)564963 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1191606 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718273 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769812 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102292 100 $a20121026d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter 1945$b[electronic resource] $elatency as origin of the present /$fHans Ulrich Gumbrecht 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $a"Originally published in German under the title Nach 1945." 311 $a0-8047-8518-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tOne Car Away from Death: An Overture -- $tChapter 1. Emergence of Latency ? -- $tChapter 2. Forms of Latency -- $tChapter 3. No Exit and No Entry -- $tChapter 4. Bad Faith and Interrogations -- $tChapter 5. Derailment and Containers -- $tChapter 6. Effects of Latency -- $tChapter 7. Unconcealment of Latency? -- $tThe Form of This Book -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat is it the legacy that humankind has been living with since 1945? We were once convinced that time was the agent of change. But in the past decade or two, our experience of time has been transformed. Technology preserves and inundates us with the past, and we perceive our future as a set of converging and threatening inevitabilities: nuclear annihilation, global warming, overpopulation. Overwhelmed by these horizons, we live in an ever broadening present. In identifying the prevailing mood of the post-World War II decade as that of "latency," Gumbrecht returns to the era when this change in the pace and structure of time emerged and shows how it shaped the trajectory of his own postwar generation. Those born after 1945, and especially those born in Germany, would have liked nothing more than to put the catastrophic events and explosions of the past behind them, but that possibility remained foreclosed or just out of reach. World literatures and cultures of the postwar years reveal this to have been a broadly shared predicament: they hint at promises unfulfilled and obsess over dishonesty and bad faith; they transmit the sensation of confinement and the inability to advance. After 1945 belies its theme of entrapment. Gumbrecht has never been limited by narrow disciplinary boundaries, and his latest inquiry is both far-ranging and experimental. It combines autobiography with German history and world-historical analysis, offering insightful reflections on Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, detailed exegesis of the thought of Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre, and surprising reflections on cultural phenomena ranging from Edith Piaf to the Kinsey Report. This personal and philosophical take on the last century is of immediate relevance to our identity today. 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCritics 676 $a801/.95092 676 $aB 700 $aGumbrecht$b Hans Ulrich$0170658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465066003321 996 $aAfter 1945$92448687 997 $aUNINA