Description:
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.
Review Quotes: "[A] fascinating and suggestive book . . . The intellectual framework of The Moment of Rupture successfully demonstrates the importance of the instantanteist chronotrope and shows how it emerged from the history of philosophy to take center stage in the interwar Weimar Republic.""-- "Contemporary Political Theory"