Time and Time Again
Reports from a Boundary of the Universe
Published on 23. February 2007
Book
Hardback
434 pages
978-90-04-15485-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work represents a guided tour to the interdisciplinary, integrated study of time. Through twenty-two connected essays, selected from the author's extensive writings, Time and Time Again advances new insights into understanding the nature of time seen through philosophy, the arts and letters, the sciences of matter, life, mind and society. Traditionally, attitudes to future, past, and present remained distinct for different cultures. But upon the globalizing earth, all cultural regions are now in instant by instant communication. There is a consequent turmoil about individual and collective identities and about value judgments, in all of which attitudes to time play crucial roles. The book explores this turmoil and, through its references, it also serves as a guide to the broadly spread literature about time.
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'"Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe" deserves to be regarded as a canonical work for humankind's journey into the 21st century. Like Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game master, Julius Thomas Fraser plays with the Study of Time with intellectual rigor and lyrical beauty. ' (B. Caithness)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
943 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-15485-8 (9789004154858)
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Person
Acknowledged to be the world's foremost scholar of the interdisciplinary study of time, Dr J.T. Fraser (1923-2010) is the author of six volumes, some seventy articles in professional periodicals and editor of ten volumes addressing the integrated study of time. He is the founder of the International Society for the Study of Time (1966), founding editor of KronoScope - Journal for the Study of Time and has lectured extensively at home and abroad.
Content
The Whir and the Bell
1. The change ringing cosmos
COMPLEXITY AND ITS MEASURE
2 From timelessness to time
OUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TIME
3. Reality as examined appearances
THE EXTENDED UMWELT PRINCIPLE
4. What kind of a universe to expect
MATHEMATICS AND TIME
5. The beginning or origin of time
THE SECULAR MYSTERY OF THE FIRST DAY
6. Contraining chaos
FROM CHAOS TO CONFLICT
7. Those metaphysical devices
CLOCKWORKS BEYOND THEMSELVES
8. How to use a clock
SPACE-TIME IN THE STUDY OF TIME
9. Coordinated clock shops
TIME AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
10. From puppy love to faithful love
TEMPORAL LEVELS: A FUNDAMENTAL SYNTHESIS
11. Logos at the edge of the cosmos
TEMPORAL LEVELS AND REALITY TESTING
12. Unbounding society
TIME, INFINITY, AND THE WORLD IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT
13. That awesome gift
HUMAN FREEDOM
14. Opiates that civilize
TIME FELT, TIME UNDERSTOOD
15. How to perpetuate conflicts
CHANGE, PERMANENCE, AND HUMAN VALUES
16. The true
TRUTH AS A RECOGNITION OF PERMANENCE
17. Music do I hear?
HOMER, BORGES, AND THE PIED PIPER.
18 A different wonder
THE PROBLEMS OF EXPORTING FAUST
19. Being a one-and-only
TIME, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NASCENT IDENTITY OF MANKIND
20. Turmoil at the anthill threshold
HAMLET'S CASTLE IN CYBERSPACE
21. Whose past is our prologue?
REFLECTIONS UPON AN EVOLVING MIRROR
22 Expanding the universe
1. The change ringing cosmos
COMPLEXITY AND ITS MEASURE
2 From timelessness to time
OUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TIME
3. Reality as examined appearances
THE EXTENDED UMWELT PRINCIPLE
4. What kind of a universe to expect
MATHEMATICS AND TIME
5. The beginning or origin of time
THE SECULAR MYSTERY OF THE FIRST DAY
6. Contraining chaos
FROM CHAOS TO CONFLICT
7. Those metaphysical devices
CLOCKWORKS BEYOND THEMSELVES
8. How to use a clock
SPACE-TIME IN THE STUDY OF TIME
9. Coordinated clock shops
TIME AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
10. From puppy love to faithful love
TEMPORAL LEVELS: A FUNDAMENTAL SYNTHESIS
11. Logos at the edge of the cosmos
TEMPORAL LEVELS AND REALITY TESTING
12. Unbounding society
TIME, INFINITY, AND THE WORLD IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT
13. That awesome gift
HUMAN FREEDOM
14. Opiates that civilize
TIME FELT, TIME UNDERSTOOD
15. How to perpetuate conflicts
CHANGE, PERMANENCE, AND HUMAN VALUES
16. The true
TRUTH AS A RECOGNITION OF PERMANENCE
17. Music do I hear?
HOMER, BORGES, AND THE PIED PIPER.
18 A different wonder
THE PROBLEMS OF EXPORTING FAUST
19. Being a one-and-only
TIME, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NASCENT IDENTITY OF MANKIND
20. Turmoil at the anthill threshold
HAMLET'S CASTLE IN CYBERSPACE
21. Whose past is our prologue?
REFLECTIONS UPON AN EVOLVING MIRROR
22 Expanding the universe