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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... ruins , and to mourn the remains of a bygone era . Tracing the scars of history , writers and painters , revolutionaries and exiles , soldiers and widows , and ordinary home dwellers took a passionate , even flamboyant / interest in the ...
... History 2 Strangers 55 3 Ruins 92 4 Along the Hedges 131 5 Household Fairies 160 Conclusion : The Historical Age 201 Notes 221 Acknowledgments 261 Index 263 And only where there are tombs are there resurrections —FRIEDRICH.
... ruins . Lost worlds of custom and tradition took on new poignancy , and the unquestioned continuities of history appeared much less straight and orderly . Although the modern era has often been reg- ulated by rationality and science ...
... ruin , " its name , origin , and meaning . " None of them had precise answers , but they knew the place to be inhabited by a hermit . No one had ever seen the recluse , although one gentleman took him for an " arrogant crank " since he ...
... ruin and his characters in historical time . We know we are in the remarkable period after the French Revolution . The ... ruins in this story or stranded people in the present , but the spe- cific course of recent history , and more ...
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