Philosophy and temporality from Kant to critical theory

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hammer Espen
Published: Cambridge University Press,
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.