
Primordial Time
Its Irreducible Reality, Human Significance, and Ecological Import
Donald A. Crosby(Author)
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 9. March 2020
Book
Hardback
148 pages
978-1-7936-2015-6 (ISBN)
Description
What if there is no such thing as a real passage of time? What differences would this idea make for our conception of the world and of our lives in the world? Donald A. Crosby's Primordial Time: Its Irreducible Reality, Human Significance, and Ecological Import defends the objective, underived reality of time and its crucial existential significance on the basis of the essential role of the qualitative, inner experiences of the passage of time and with a variety of other scientific and philosophical arguments concerning time. He also explores the urgent reality of time in relation to the ecological crisis of our day.
Reviews / Votes
"Donald Crosby's latest book is an elegant philosophical essay on the nature of time as the ground of nature and value. Through accessible philosophical reflection and interdisciplinary engagement with physicists and cosmologists, Crosby argues that the flowing of time is real, irrepressible, and primordial, rather than illusory, cyclical, or contingent. Through phenomenological analysis and existential reflection, he shows how the unyielding surge of time is essential to understanding why our lives feel the way they do-why we care about anything, why we mourn and grieve. Finally, in a time of ecological emergency, in which we may be running out of time, Crosby's book calls upon us to recognize the fierce timeliness of our responsibilities." -- Michael S. Hogue, author of American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World This book is a profound meditation on death, not as the end of life, but in the primordial sense that each moment passes in time. The fruit of that meditation is a rich argument about what time really is-indeed, nothing is more real than time-and why time matters. This is a bold argument; in making it, Crosby challenges a long list of thinkers who have speculated about the nature of time, ranging from Augustine to Einstein. Affirming time's primordial reality is the key both for determining what makes a human life worth living and for evaluating our contemporary ecological crisis. Readers will discover here the mature reflection of a distinguished religious naturalist whose work keeps getting even better with time! -- Michael Raposa, Lehigh UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-2015-6 (9781793620156)
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Person
Donald A. Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus at Colorado State University.
Content
Contents
Preface
1. Two Questions about Time
2. Direction of Time
3. Scope of Time
4. Reality of Time
5. Time and Matter-Energy
6. Existential Time
7. Ecological Toll of Time
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Preface
1. Two Questions about Time
2. Direction of Time
3. Scope of Time
4. Reality of Time
5. Time and Matter-Energy
6. Existential Time
7. Ecological Toll of Time
Bibliography
Index
About the Author