The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. This title addresses the matter of time and temporalities. It includes topics such as the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity.

Acknowledgements; Introduction, Tyrus Miller; I. Temporality in the Long Run 1. Stefan Maul, Walking Backwards into the Future: The Conception of Time in the Ancient Near East; 2. Karen Bassi, Epic Remains: Seeing and Time in the Odyssey; 3. Jonathan Beecher, Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the Shape of History; 4. Wai Chee Dimock, World History According to Katrina; II. Historical Figures: Mediations, Citations, Narrations 5. Ruth HaCohen, The Transfiguration of Proper and A"ImproperA" Sounds from Christian to Jewish Environments; 6. Britta Duelke, Quoting from the Past, or Dealing with Temporality; 7. Richard Terdiman, Taking Time: Temporal Representations and Cultural Politics; 8. Catherine Soussloff, Image-Times, Image-Histories, Image-Thinking; 9. Bill Nichols, Documentary Reenactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That Is Not One; III. Shapes of Modernity 10. Laszlo Kontler, Time and Progress-Time as Progress: An Enlightened Sermon by William Robertson; 11. Andrew Wegley, Religious Revivals: Modernity and Religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's Anti-Christ and Richard Wright's The Outsider; 12. Lisa Rofel, Hetero-Temporalities of Post-Socialism; 13. David Hoy, The Politics of Temporality-Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida; IV. A"To the PlanetariumA": From Cosmos to History and Back 14. Tyrus Miller, Eternity No More: Walter Benjamin on the Eternal Return; 15. Karl Clausberg, 'A Microscope for Time': What Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the Movies Owe to Distant Stars; Notes on Contributors; Index