Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Temporality in the Long Run
6. 1. Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East 13
7. 2. Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey 25
8. 3. Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of History 47
9. 4. World History According to Katrina 59
10. Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations
11. 5. Intricate Temporalities: The Transfiguration of Proper and “Improper” Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environments 79
12. 6. Quoting from the Past or Dealing with Temporality 105
13. 7. Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politics 131
14. 8. Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinking 145
15. 9. Documentary Re-enactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not One 171
16. Shapes of Modernity
17. 10. Time and Progress—Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertson 193
18. 11. Religious Revivals: The Binds of Religion and Modernity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ and Richard Wright’s The Outsider 221
19. 12. Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism 243
20. 13. The Politics of Temporality: Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida 261
21. “To the Planetarium”: From Cosmos to History and Back
22. 14. Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Return 277
23. 15. A Microscope for Time: What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Stars 297
24. Contributors 359
25. Index 365