Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The Instant from Goethe to Nietzsche: The Modern Beginnings of a Concept 21
5. Chapter 2. The Instant of the Avant-Garde 46
6. Chapter 3. Ernst Jünger and the Instant of Crisis 68
7. Chapter 4. Ernst Bloch and the Temporality of the Not-Yet 95
8. Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin and the Now-Time of History 124
9. Conclusion. Instantaneism as a Regime of Historicity 154
10. Notes 167
11. Index 199
12. Acknowledgments 207