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Central European University Press
The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities. The volume's essays, divided into... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Tyrus Miller, Temporality in the Long Run, Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations, Shapes of Modernity, “To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back, Contributors, Index
Biography
Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature and Provostof Cowell Collegeat the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz. He is the author of Late Modernism:Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the WorldWars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and theNeo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern UniversityPress, 2008).
