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What Is the Present? (Hardcover)
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What Is the Present? (Hardcover)
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A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection
to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and
culture The problem of the present—what it is and what it
means—is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists.
Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics
argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and
now—but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and
now actually is? What Is the Present? takes a provocative new look
at this moment in time that remains a mystery even though it is
always with us. Michael North tackles puzzles that have preoccupied
philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, history, and aesthetic theory
and examines the complex role of the present in painting, fiction,
and film. He engages with a range of thinkers, from Aristotle and
Augustine to William James and Henri Bergson. He draws illuminating
examples from artists such as Fra Angelico and Richard McGuire,
filmmakers like D. W. Griffith and Christopher Nolan, and novelists
such as Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather. North offers a critical
analysis of previous models of the present, from the experiential
present to the historical period we call the contemporary. He
argues that the present is not a cosmological or experiential fact
but a metaphor, a figurative relationship with the whole of time.
Presenting an entirely new conception of the temporal mystery Georg
Lukács called the "unexplained instant," What Is the Present?
explores how the arts have traditionally represented the
present—and also how artists have offered radical alternatives to
that tradition.
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