Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHarvard University Press, 28. maj 2004 - 268 sider In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. |
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... journey in the early 1800s with Joseph von Eichendorff , a long forgotten Prussian administrator , but a per- ceptive Romantic writer . In one of his story sketches , Eichendorff sat a traveler down in a train compartment , a typical ...
... journey enforces the distance from the ruin , it also enables its exploration . The castle remains in view from the train speeding to other places and can thus stir the traveler's curiosity precisely because it is so near and so far ...
... journey by trains and schedules . For all the fairytale qualities surrounding the castle and its peacocks , Eichendorff takes pains to situate the ruin and his characters in historical time . We know we are in the remarkable period ...
... journey to the unknown castle . At the same time that the dis- tant past no longer offered a complete and visible account of it- self , it was therefore available for reinterpretation . History turned dramatic : it offered modern ...
... journeys backward in time and sug- gested new possibilities for reconfiguring the present . Finally , the role of contingency in history expanded as the de- velopmental logic , which made the events of the past cumulative or the ...
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Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History Peter Fritzsche Begrænset visning - 2010 |