Philosophy and temporality from Kant to critical theory
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Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, U.K. |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Modern European philosophy |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 260 p.: ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9781107005006 (hbk.) 1107005000 (hardback) |
Index Number: | B016 |
CLC: | B016.9 |
Call Number: | B016.9/H224 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- 1. The historicity of time -- 2. Modern temporality -- 3. Two responses to the time of modernity -- 4. Hegel's temporalization of the absolute -- 5. Schopenhauer and transcendence -- 6. Time and myth in the early Nietzsche -- 7. Recurrence and authenticity: the later Nietzsche on time -- 8. Heidegger on boredom and modernity -- 9. A modernist critique of postmodern temporality -- Conclusion. "This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. |