What is the present? /

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time and their effect on literature, art and culture. The problem of the present, what it is and what it means, is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the...

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Main Author: North, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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