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The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde

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The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde - Osborne, Peter
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If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmodern and tradition-which are usually only treated as markets for empirically discrete periods, movements or styles-are best understood as categories of historical totalization. More specifically, Osborne claims, such ideas involve distinct "temporalizations" of history, giving rise to ...

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The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde 2011, Verso Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781844676736

2nd edition

Paperback