Shapes of time : history and eschatology in the modernist imagination /

"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linea...

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Main Author:	McGillen, Michael, 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2023.
Series:	Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Barth, Karl, > 1886-1968 > Criticism and interpretation. Rosenzweig, Franz, > 1886-1929 > Criticism and interpretation. Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation. Musil, Robert, > 1880-1942 > Criticism and interpretation. Barth, Karl, > 1886-1968 Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 Musil, Robert, > 1880-1942 Rosenzweig, Franz, > 1886-1929 Time in literature. Mathematics in literature. Modernism (Literature) > Europe, German-speaking. Temps dans la littérature. Mathématiques dans la littérature. Modernisme (Littérature) > Germanophonie. Mathematics in literature Modernism (Literature) Time in literature German-speaking Europe Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Summary:	"The book shows how German-language modernist writers Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil reimagined history and the end of time using the spatial forms of non-Euclidean geometry and modernist mathematics, offering alternatives to the historicist paradigm of linear time guided by teleology"--
Item Description:	"A Signale Book."
Physical Description:	x, 341 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index.
ISBN:	9781501772818 1501772813 9781501772825 1501772821