On Borrowed Time电子书

1 Life Is Short,Art Is Long

MEDICAL APHORISMS AND THE MOVEMENT OF TIME Hippocrates,Aristotle,Theophrastus

PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE ▪ Seneca

DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND TIME MANAGEMENT Leon Battista Alberti

TEACHING TIME MANAGEMENT IN LONDON AND PARIS Chesterfield, Rilke

2 The Midpoint of Life

MIDWAY ON LIFE' S JOURNEY ▪ Dante, Petrarch, Hölderlin

REJUVENATION IN ROME—THROUGH ROME ▪ Goethe

THE PHYSICIAN' S ART OF PROLONGING LIFE ▪ Hufeland

A LONG LIFE WITH FAUST ▪ Goethe

NEW ART AND ANOTHER LIFE ▪ Vittorio Alfieri, Schiller

MAGIC AND STYLE IN LIFE-TIME ▪ Balzac

EVERY DAY IS A SONNET ▪ Oscar Wilde

UNTIMELY DEATH OR VENERABLE OLD AGE Chatterton, Keats, Benn, Thomas Mann

REVOCABLE AND IRREVOCABLE TIME ▪ Ingeborg Bachmann

3 Limited Time in This World and in the Next

YET A LITTLE WHILE ▪ Jesus, St. Paul

IN PURGATORY, TIME IS PRECIOUS ▪ Dante

MORE TIME FOR A NEW WORLD ▪ Benjamin Franklin

A PURGATORY IN THIS WORLD ▪ Max Weber

REVOLUTIONARY HISTORICAL TIMES, IN RAPID FIRE Heine, Marx

4 Short and Shortest Times

TWO GODS OF TIME: CHRONOS AND KAIROS ▪ Mythology, Classics

STARS AND HOURS ▪ Schiller, Wallenstein; Stefan Zweig

BETWEEN AUSTERLITZ AND WATERLOO ▪ Émile Zola

5 The Economy of Limited Time

THREE-DAY FRIENDSHIP: HOSPITALITY ▪ Homer, Knigge

CLASSICISM AS ECONOMY OF TIME ▪ From Plutarch to André Gide

LIVING FASTER, TALKING LESS ▪ Jean Paul, Madame de Staël

6 The Drama of Time in Short Supply

EPIC IS LONG, DRAMA IS SHORT ▪ Aristotle

HOW LONG IS TWENTY-FOUR HOURS? ▪ Corneille

TIME OUT OF JOINT ▪ Shakespeare, Hamlet

SALADIN LEARNS TO TAKE HIS TIME ▪ Lessing, Nathan the Wise

TIME AND THE OEUVRE ▪ Proust

7 Finitude, Infinity

CURIOSITY—THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE—SCIENCE From Aristotle to Leibniz

A NOTHINGNESS OF TIME IN EXCHANGE FOR ETERNITY Pascal, Emily Dickinson

TOO LITTLE TIME, TOO MUCH WORLD ▪ Blumenberg

ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES OF SHORTAGE ▪ Odo Marquard

8 Living with Deadlines

CLOCKS, CALENDARS, APPOINTMENT CALENDARS Clockmakers, Calendarmakers

DEADLINES IN EVERYDAY LIFE ▪ Tutti, con moto

DEADLINES IN LAW, WITH A BRIEF GLANCE AT“ABORTION LIMITS” ■ Civil Law, Criminal Law, Labor Law

“...BUT FOR THE PRESENT, NOT YET” ▪ Heidegger, Marquard

9 Short Stories about Short Deadlines

SAVED FROM DEATH AT THE LAST MINUTE Thousand and One Nights; Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

A BALLAD ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND DEADLINES Schiller, “Die Bürgschaft”

A DEVIL' S PACT WITH DEADLINES ▪ Chamisso

THE TRAPS AND LABORS OF DEADLINES ▪ Flaubert, Maupassant

DEADLINES OF HONOR, PRUSSIAN STYLE ▪ Theodor Fontane

DEADLINES FOR HONOR IN IMPERIAL AUSTRIA ▪ Arthur Schnitzler

A SHORT TIME TO BE HUMANE García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

FIFTEEN MINUTES' DELAY FOR DEATH ▪ Blaise Cendrars

EVERYMAN' S LAST REPRIEVE ▪ Hugo von Hofmannsthal

A SHORT EPILOGUE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM ▪ Tabucchi

A RACE AROUND THE WORLD Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

SHORT TIME, COMIC STYLE ▪ Camoletti, Boeing-Boeing

A TWENTY-MINUTE DEADLINE: LOLA RUNS Tom Tywker, Lola rennt

10 Epilogue on the Sense of Time

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