Diverging Time: The Politics Of Modernity In Kant, Hegel, And Marx
by David Carvounas /
2002 / English / PDF
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Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and
paradigms. In Diverging Time David Carvounas supports this
assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of
Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our
understanding of modernity as an epochal shift in the relationship
between past and future—recasting the significance of the past and
future of the modern present. Despite their different solutions to
the problem of temporal coordination, they urged the modern world
to look not to the past but to the newly opened future for
continuity, meaning, and purpose. This book not only offers a fresh
look at a defining characteristic of modernity, but also makes a
compelling case that a coherent modern temporal structure requires
a sustainable orientation toward the future—an orientation that
Kant, Hegel, and Marx delineate in distinctive and powerful ways.
Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and
paradigms. In Diverging Time David Carvounas supports this
assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of
Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our
understanding of modernity as an epochal shift in the relationship
between past and future—recasting the significance of the past and
future of the modern present. Despite their different solutions to
the problem of temporal coordination, they urged the modern world
to look not to the past but to the newly opened future for
continuity, meaning, and purpose. This book not only offers a fresh
look at a defining characteristic of modernity, but also makes a
compelling case that a coherent modern temporal structure requires
a sustainable orientation toward the future—an orientation that
Kant, Hegel, and Marx delineate in distinctive and powerful ways.
