LEADER 03573cam a2200445 i 4500001 236195 005 20240621195741.0 007 tu 008 121026s2013 cau b 001 0aeng 010 2012043944 016 7 1035038137 |2DE-101 020 9780804785181 |q(cloth) |q(alkaline paper) 020 080478518X |q(cloth) |q(alkaline paper) 024 8 40022472188 035 (OCoLC)ocn816499135 035 236195 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hger 040 CSt/DLC |beng |erda |cSTF |dDLC |dOCLCO |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBWX |dYUS |dMUU |dGWDNB |dLHM 050 00 PN75.G86 |bG86 2013 100 1 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, |eauthor. 240 10 Nach 1945. |lEnglish 245 10 After 1945 : |blatency as origin of the present / |cHans Ulrich Gumbrecht. 264 1 Stanford, California : |bStanford University Press, |c2013. 300 227 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 500 "Originally published in German under the title Nach 1945." 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. 520 "What 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."--Publisher's website. 505 0 One car away from death: An overture -- Emergence of latency? A generation's beginning -- Forms of latency -- No exit and no entry -- Bad faith / Interrogations -- Derailment / Containers -- Effects of latency -- Unconcealment of latency? My story with time. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. 650 0 Critics |zUnited States |vBiography. 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 856 42 |uhttp://d-nb.info/1035038137/04 |3Table of contents 852 0 |bstacks |hPN75.G86 |iG86 2013