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the fascination with unknown time edited by sibylle baumbach, lena henningsen, klaus oschema 7 1 5 4 6 The Fascination with Unknown Time Sibylle Baumbach · Lena Henningsen Klaus Oschema Editors The Fascination with Unknown Time Editors Sibylle Baumbach Klaus Oschema Department of English Department of History University of Innsbruck Ruhr University Bochum Innsbruck, Tirol Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen Austria Germany Lena Henningsen Department of Chinese Studies University of Freiburg Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg Germany ISBN 978-3-319-66437-8 ISBN 978-3-319-66438-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66438-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950717 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design by Henry Petrides Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland P reface The subject of this volume is so vast and rich that it can only be explored in broad interdisciplinary dialogue. Our aim was to include a wide range of disciplines from the humanities to address different facets of the fascination with time and to open up new avenues for its analysis by transgressing established disciplinary boundaries. This endeavor was largely made possible by the fertile and flexible framework for transdis- ciplinary collaboration offered by the German Young Academy (Die Junge Akademie) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Since its foundation in 2000, Die Junge Akademie has enabled vibrant cooperation and exchange among researchers from a wide range of dis- ciplines in the sciences and the humanities. It also facilitated a project in which three scholars, working on early modern English literature, con- temporary Chinese Studies, and medieval history, respectively, collabo- rated to explore a challenging and multi-faceted subject. Our work in the context of the Young Academy’s Research Group “Fascination” resulted, amongst others, in a three-day conference at Berlin (9–11 July 2014) at which the first drafts of the contributions to this volume were presented and discussed in a committed, vivid, and—most of all—friendly and pro- ductive atmosphere. Based on this conference and the great potential of the transdisciplinary approach to the fascination with time, we decided to compile a volume on the topic to introduce this new research area and promote further research on the topic. v vi PREFACE We thank all the contributors for engaging in the interdisciplinary dia- logue, both at the initial conference and during the preparation of this volume, and for their constructive feedback and their patience during the editing process. We are particularly grateful to Walther Ch. Zimmerli, who, as our keynote speaker at the conference but also beyond, provided important input from a philosophical perspective. Our thanks also go to the Young Academy for funding a conference on this topic and to the team of the Young Academy’s office in Berlin who helped tremendously with the logistics connected with both the conference and numerous meetings of the working group on “Fascination.” We also thank Christof Diem for his editorial assistance in preparing this volume for publication. Finally, we thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and the editors at Palgrave Macmillan for their superb support in bring- ing this book to publication. Innsbruck, Austria Sibylle Baumbach Freiburg, Germany Lena Henningsen Bochum, Germany Klaus Oschema a cknowledgements The preparation of this publication has been generously supported by Die Junge Akademie. The Junge Akademie was founded in 2000 as the first academy for the new academic generation worldwide. The fifty members of the Junge Akademie, young academics and artists from German-speaking countries, are dedicated to interdisciplinary discourse and are active at the inter- faces between academia and society. The Junge Akademie is supported by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The office is located in Berlin. vii c ontents 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination 1 Sibylle Baumbach, Lena Henningsen and Klaus Oschema Part I Past Futures 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies 23 Anke Holdenried 3 ‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias 43 Christian Hoffarth 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses 71 András Kraft 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages 93 Klaus Oschema ix x CONTENTS 6 ‘From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:’ Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology 115 Marco Tamborini Part II Unknown Presents 7 Introducing Time to Ethnographic Displays: Narrative Strategies of Revealing the Unknown in German Ethnological Museums 143 Katja Wehde 8 “God’s Time Is the Best:” The Fascination with Unknown Time in Urban Transport in Lagos 167 Daniel E. Agbiboa 9 Perpetual Wanderers—Timeless Heroes: Gypsies in European Musical Culture 189 Anna G. Piotrowska 10 The Present: An ‘Unknown Time’ in the German Kaiserreich around 1900 211 Caroline Rothauge Part III Future Pasts 11 The Time-Image and the Unknown in Wong Kar-wai’s Film Art 233 Dorothee Xiaolong Hou and Sheldon H. Lu 12 Suspense in the Cinema: Knowledge and Time 251 Hauke Lehmann CONTENTS xi 13 Futurology, Allegory, Time Travel: What Makes Science Fiction Fascinating 273 Kai Wiegandt Index 293
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