Shapes of TimeShapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of timebeyond those of historicism and nineteenth century philosophies of historyat the boundary between secular and theological discourses. By analyzing canonical works of German modernismthose of Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and