What, Then, Is Time?
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2001
256 pages
978-1-4616-2175-1 (ISBN)
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'What is time?' Well-known philosopher and intellectual historian, Eva Brann mounts an inquiry into a subject universally agreed to be among the most familiar and the most strange of human experiences. Brann approaches questions of time through the study of ten famous texts by such thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, showing how they bring to light the perennial issues regarding time. She also offers her independent reflections. Examining the three phases of time, past, present, and future, she argues that neither external time nor the time of the human past is real: the one is a comparison of motions and the other a projection of memory. She concludes that true time is internal and has its origin in the imaginative structure of memory and expectation. Throughout her rich and original study, Brann never fudges the central fact that time is a mystery.
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English
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New York
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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978-1-4616-2175-1 (9781461621751)
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Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis. This book is part of her trilogy dealing with three central human capacities. The World of Imagination explores our ability to make the absent present. The Ways of Naysaying deals with our ability to deny existence, reality, or being. This component of her trilogy, What, Then, Is Time?, discovers our ability to live with what is no longer, or not yet.
Content
- Cover page
- Title page
- Dedication
- Copyright page
- Contents
- PREFACE
- PART ONE. PRESENTATIONS
- Chapter One. External Time: Time as Motion
- A. Plato and Einstein: Time as a Clock
- I. Plato: The Cosmic Clock
- II. Einstein: The Local Clock
- III. Time among the Physicists
- IV. Fallacies
- 1. The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
- 2. The Pathetic Fallacy
- V. Division of the Field
- 1. Leibniz: Relation of Succession
- 2. Table of Theories of Time
- B. Hegel and Bergson: Time Out of Space
- I. Hegel: Time as the Truth of Space
- II. Bergson: Space as the Falsehood of Time
- Chapter Two. Aristotle and Kant: The Counting Soul
- A. Aristotle
- I. The Being of Time
- II. The Elements of Time
- 1. Magnitude
- 2. Motion
- 3. Before-and-After
- 4. Number
- 5. Now
- 6. Soul
- 7. Clocks
- III. Time
- IV. Phases
- B. Kant
- I. Receptivity and Human Finitude
- ll. Sensibility: Space and Time
- 1. Space
- 2. Time
- III. Time and Thinking
- 1. Concepts
- 2. Judgment and Imagination
- 3. The Schema
- 4. The Priority of Time
- 5. The Schemata
- 6. Counting
- IV. Time and Space
- 1. Analogies of Experience
- 2. The Refutation of Idealism
- V. Inner Sense
- 1. The "I Think
- 2. Representing Time
- 3. Representing the Soul
- VI. The Phases of Time
- 1. The Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition
- 2. The Synthesis of Reproduction in the Imagination
- 3. The Synthesis of Recognition in a Concept
- 4. The Future
- Chapter Three. Plotinus and Heidegger: The Grounding of Time
- A. Plotinus
- B. Heidegger
- Chapter Four. Augustine and Husserl: The Stretching of the Mind
- A. Augustine
- I. Memory
- II. Time
- 1. "In the Beginning
- 2. The Questionable Question
- 3. Creation-Time
- 4 Measuring Time
- 5. The Pivotal Present
- 6. The Stretching of the Mind
- 7. A Putative Diagram
- 8. Before the Beginning
- 9. The Image of Eternity
- B. Husserl
- I. The Perennial Question
- II. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness
- III. Predecessors
- IV. The Diagram of Time
- V. Retention and Other Time-Terms
- 1. Perception
- 2. Primal Impression
- 3. Retention
- 4. Protention
- 5. Memory
- 6. Expectation
- VI. Double Intentionality
- VII. Absolute Time
- 1. The Absolute Time-Flow
- 2. Newton: Absolute Time
- VIII. The Commonality of Time
- Part TWO. REFLECTIONS
- Chapter One. The Phases of Time: The Human Dimension
- I. Time and Imagination: Flux and Fusion
- 1. Past and Memory
- 2. Future and Expectation
- 3. Present and Perception
- II. Time-Pathologies: Phase-Fixations
- 1. The Strutting Point: The Preoccupying Now
- 2. The Slouching Beast: The Oncomming Future
- 3. The Night of Time: The Dead Past
- 4. A Cure: The Atemporal Past
- Chapter Two. Time: The Potent Nonentity
- I. What Time Is Not
- II. What, Then, Is Time?
- Reference Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
