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14 Afterword: The Human Scale of Time and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
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Published:October 2021
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The experience of human loss and the confrontation of the present with the temporality of the divine or with the secular idea of fate was particularly acutely felt, though much less written about, during the influenza pandemic of 1918. The First World War, in this sense, represents only the most intense heightening of a quest so often undertaken in sorrow, raging against the particular crises, shocks and destructions of modernity. But the 1918 pandemic created a more mysterious sense of uncertainty about the past and future and an intense, disquieting re-focusing on the present which profoundly shifted European’s temporal gaze, even as reflections on the First World War and its impact were themselves becoming embedded in cultural discourse.
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