Aleida Assmann was until 2014 Chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of several books that have been translated into English, including most recently, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. With her husband Jan, she was awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory and the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Superbly translated by Sarah Clift, Is Time out of Joint? produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources.(Cambridge University Press) Assmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature(Journal of European Studies) Aleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, Is Time Out of Joint? combines pithiness with creativity.(International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society) Aleida Assmann's Is Time out of Joint? has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies.(Memory Studies)

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Time and the ModernBaudelaire's Discovery of the PresentHow Long Does the Present Last?2. Work on the Modern Myth of HistoryTransformations in the Idea of ProgressThe Theory of Time Underlying Modern HistoriographyModernization Theory and Theories of ModernityWhen Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western HistoryThe Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States)3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal RegimeTemporal RuptureThe Fiction of BeginningCreative DestructionDestroying and Preserving: The Invention of the HistoricalAcceleration4. Concepts of Time in Late ModernityCompensation TheoryCompensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past5. Is Time out of Joint?Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad PresentConnections between the Past, Present, and Future6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time RegimeThree New Categories: Culture, Identity, MemoryThe Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible TimeIdentity Politics: Intersections between History and MemoryTwo Trends in the Politics of HistoryConclusionWorks CitedIndex

Aleida Assmann was until 2014 Chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of several books that have been translated into English, including most recently, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. With her husband Jan, she was awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory and the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.

Superbly translated by Sarah Clift, Is Time out of Joint? produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources.(Cambridge University Press) Assmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature(Journal of European Studies) Aleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, Is Time Out of Joint? combines pithiness with creativity.(International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society) Aleida Assmann's Is Time out of Joint? has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies.(Memory Studies)

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Time and the ModernBaudelaire's Discovery of the PresentHow Long Does the Present Last?2. Work on the Modern Myth of HistoryTransformations in the Idea of ProgressThe Theory of Time Underlying Modern HistoriographyModernization Theory and Theories of ModernityWhen Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western HistoryThe Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States)3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal RegimeTemporal RuptureThe Fiction of BeginningCreative DestructionDestroying and Preserving: The Invention of the HistoricalAcceleration4. Concepts of Time in Late ModernityCompensation TheoryCompensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past5. Is Time out of Joint?Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad PresentConnections between the Past, Present, and Future6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time RegimeThree New Categories: Culture, Identity, MemoryThe Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible TimeIdentity Politics: Intersections between History and MemoryTwo Trends in the Politics of HistoryConclusionWorks CitedIndex