Marc Auge

Everyone Dies Young

Time Without Age

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We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to defer. Time is a freedom, age a constraint. Augé proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. I… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gladding, Jody (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-231-17589-0
EAN: 9780231175890
Produktnummer: 19199878
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Masse: H17.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.1 cm 128 g
Gewicht: 128
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Marc Augé is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His most well-known book in English is Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity. He is also the author of The Future; No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction; Oblivion; and In the Metro.