epoch

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is a the place from which one looks out at things rather than a realist claim about periodization.

Blumenberg advocates a return to a form of understanding of epoch as a place from which one looks out at things rather than to continue to pursue realist claims to identify periods that, he argues, can never be empirically justified and only produce an infinite regress of detail and thus futile polemic over boundaries and definitions' (Rabinow 2007:63)

is always possessed of its own problems, the solving of which helps humanity forward.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. Heinrich Heine

is that is most obscure is always our own.

The obscurest epoch is today. Robert Louis Stevenson

is that of which time is composed. Each man thinks his own a novelty.

Time is made up of various ages... and each thinks its own a novelty. Herman Melville

An age is the reversal of an age: / When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, / We lived like men that watch a painted stage. / What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: / It had not touched our lives.

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