{"product_id":"politics-of-time-modernity-and-avant-garde-paperback","title":"Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Osborne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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 conflicting politics of time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis book begins with a consideration of the main aspects of modernity and develops though a series of critical engagements with the major twentieth-century positions in the philosophy of history. He concludes with a fascinating history of the avant-garde intervention into the temporality of everyday life in surrealism, the situationists and the work of Henri Lefebvre.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Osborne\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of modern European philosophy at KingstonUniversity, London, and an editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConceptual Art\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of the three-volume \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 7.76 x 5.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760177742112,"sku":"9781844676736","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f89f8cbb31c83f7a458e8a2d9f358c0e.webp?v=1780173677","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/politics-of-time-modernity-and-avant-garde-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}