Ebook: Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture

Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Tracking a Hypothesis; 1. Presence in Language or Presence Achieved Against Language?; 2. A Negative Anthropology of Globalization; 3. Stagnation: Temporal, Intellectual, Heavenly; 4. "Lost in Focused Intensity": Spectator Sports and Strategies of Re-Enchantment; 5. Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present: On Our New Relationship with Classics; 6. Infinite Availability: About Hypercommunication (and Old Age); In the Broad Present; Notes; Index; Series List.;Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a?historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we live in today, which shapes our perceptions, experiences, and actions, is no longer historicist. Without fully realizing it, we now inhabit a new.