Time and Freedom
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2014
304 pages
978-0-8101-6813-8 (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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the American Edition
- Note on Citations, Translations, and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Tree of Possibilities
- 1. Whether the Future is Necessary (Leibniz)
- 2. Three Kantian Solutions to the Problem of Pre-Determinism
- 3. The Wheel of Time (Schopenhauer)
- Part 2. The Plasticity of Time
- 4. The Time of Decision (Schelling)
- 5. The Moment (Kierkegaard)
- 6. Decision for Temporality (Heidegger)
- Part 3. The Mystery of the Future
- 7. Time as the Source of Freedom (Bergson)
- 8. Freedom at the Root of Time (Sartre)
- 9. The Fecundity of Time (Levinas)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
