Sentence examples for historical rupture from inspiring English sources

The series entitled "Lateness" will examine posteriority in the late phase of a continuum, on the one hand, or the aftermath of a historical rupture, on the other.

When a late phase presents more of a departure from than continuity with the past, it may reflect a historical rupture.

The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture.

Our topics of discussion include historical rupture, loss and melancholy, exile, freedom, migration, social bonding and identity, capitalism, nationalism, and the world revolution.

Hoffmann's research explores the history of political concepts like cosmopolitanism, democracy and human rights as well as the everyday life in cities at moments of historical rupture.

Didn't you shout 'yes' when Goebbels asked you on 18 February 1943 in the Berlin Sportpalast: "Do you want total war?" Expressions such as "national humiliation" or the "rise from total degradation" reveal Sebald to have been a child of the postwar period and a writer significantly moulded by years spent in a country which never experienced a comparable historical rupture.

It highlights the historical ruptures, tensions, and upheavals that the thinker sought to capture and comprehend and, in telling his story, engages with the intellectual and political history of a turbulent epoch.

The epicenters of historical ruptures along the NAF are also located mainly at segment boundaries (Dewey 1976; Barka 1996).

As it is, footage of JFK like this week's combines the arm's-length glamour of classical Hollywood with intimations of world-historical rupture and personal tragedy.

Paul Mann and a group including the 2006 study team presented a hazard assessment of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system to the 18th Caribbean Geologic Conference in March 2008, noting the large strain; the team recommended "high priority" historical geologic rupture studies, as the fault was fully locked and had recorded few earthquakes in the preceding 40 years.

New strategies of survival, accumulation and political expression are thus associated with historical and generational rupture, and with the affirmation of an entrepreneurial ethos and consumerist values.