
Time and Freedom
Christophe Bouton(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8101-3015-9 (ISBN)
Description
Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time.
Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later) Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton's is the first major work of its kind since Bergson's Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton's "mystery of the future," in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.
Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later) Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton's is the first major work of its kind since Bergson's Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton's "mystery of the future," in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-3015-9 (9780810130159)
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Christophe Bouton is a professor of philosophy at Universite Bordeaux Montaigne. His most recent book is Faire l'histoire (2013). Time and Freedom is his first book to be translated into English.
Christopher Macann's most recent translation is of Alain Berthoz and Jean-Luc Petit's The Physiology and Phenomenology of Action (2008).
Christopher Macann's most recent translation is of Alain Berthoz and Jean-Luc Petit's The Physiology and Phenomenology of Action (2008).