Book(electronic)#12019
The Moment of Rupture: Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought
In: Intellectual history of the modern age
In: Intellectual History of the Modern Age Ser.
The Moment of Rupture demonstrates how Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin fused the consciousness of war, crisis, catastrophe, and revolution with literary and philosophical formulations of the concept of the instant, tracing the formation of a distinct mode of experiencing time based on the notion of a discontinuous present.