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The Pace of Modernity - Reading With Blumenberg (Paperback)
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The Pace of Modernity - Reading With Blumenberg (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein said that philosophers should greet each other, not by
saying "hello," but rather "take your time." But what is time? Time
is money, but this points to an even better answer to this basic
question for our modern epoch: time is acceleration. In a cultural
system which stresses economic efficiency, the quicker route is
always the more prized, if not always the better one.
Wittgenstein's dictum thus constitutes an act of rebellion against
the dominant vector of our culture, but as such it threatens to
become (quickly) anti-modern. We need an approach to "reading" our
information-rich culture which is not reactionary but rather meets
its accelerated condition. In this book, O. Bradley Bassler
develops a toolkit for acute reading of our modern pace, not
through withdrawal but rather through active engagement with a
broad range of disciplines. The main characters in this drama
comprise a cast of master readers: Hannah Arendt, Jean Starobinski,
Harold Bloom, Angus Fletcher, Hans Blumenberg and John Ashbery,
with secondary figures drawn from the readers and critics whom this
central group suggests. We must develop a vocabulary of pacing,
reflecting our modern distance from classical sources and the
concomitant acceleration of our contemporary condition. Only in
this way can we begin to situate the phenomenon of modernity within
the larger scales of human culture and history.
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