The front as an experience of temporality:: crisis of civilisation, representational bankruptcy and alterity.

This article is an introductory study about the thought of some intellectuals above all Erich Maria Remarque - who lived the First World War and witnessed an historical period deeply disturbed by violence and death - the experience of temporality. For this study, I will investigate three topics in the thought of those intellectuals: the crisis of civilization idea; the limits of representation as cognitive category and the question of alterity.