The ethics of time : a phenomenology and hermeneutics of change / John Panteleimon Manoussakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manoussakis, John Panteleimon, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Change--Moral and ethical aspects.

Change.

Time--Moral and ethical aspects.

Time.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

The Ethics of Time" explores a rather uncharted field in philosophy, namely the ethical implications of time. It does so by utilizing the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics. On the one hand, its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, while on the other hand, it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as, Augustine's Confessions and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, among others. Nevertheless, this book makes a claim to originality, as it does not provide a commentary on any single text or thinker. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages literature, theology and the arts more generally. It takes seriously phenomenology's claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the "ethical" self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness.

Contents:

Part 1 Prolegomena to Any Future

1 The Cosmology of Movement and the Metaphysics of Time 3

2 The Anthropology of Movement and the Phenomenology of Time 15

Part 2 The Scandal of the Good

The First Garden: Being at the Beginning

3 In the Beginning 37

4 In the Between 51

5 After Evil 67

The Second Garden: Being Divided

6 Will and Grace 81

7 The Time of the Body 97

8 The Ethics of Desire 113

The Third Garden: Final Being

9 An Undying Death 133

10 Sarx 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-205) and index.

ISBN:

1474299164

9781474299169

OCLC:

948336188