Politics of time : modernity and avant-garde

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Politics of time : modernity and avant-garde

Peter Osborne

(Radical thinkers)

Verso, [2011]

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The politics of time : modernity and avant-gard

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Previous ed.: 1995

Bibliography: p. 245-260

Includes index

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If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmodern and tradition-which are usually only treated as markets for empirically discrete periods, movements or styles-are best understood as categories of historical totalization. More specifically, Osborne claims, such ideas involve distinct "temporalizations" of history, giving rise to conflicting politics of time. His book begins with a consideration of the main aspects of modernity and develops though a series of critical engagements with the major twentieth-century positions in the philosophy of history. He concludes with a fascinating history of the avant-garde intervention into the temporality of everyday life in surrealism, the situationists and the work of Henri Lefebvre.

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  • NCID
    BB04566525
  • ISBN
    • 9781844676736
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 272 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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