Enduring time / by Lisa Baraitser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baraitser, Lisa, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Time--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

We are currently seeing dramatic changes in the ways we imagine and experience time. Permanent debt, unending violent conflict, climate change, economic instability, and widening social inequalities have led to suggestions that we are now living in the time of the 'end times'. In the shadow of a foreshortened future, the present is increasingly experienced as a form of 'non-stop inertia', resulting in experiences of time as both frenetic but also stuck - revving up, as Ivor Southwood puts it, to go nowhere. So, where do we go and how when all options seem to have run their course and time is no longer moving forward? Enduring Time proposes some alternative relations of time which provide hopeful alternatives to the dominating models of oppression, limitation and exploitation. A strikingly original philosophy of time which also provides students and scholars with a rigorous and detailed survey of contemporary theories of time, Enduring Time is an indispensable read for those attempting to live meaningfully in the current age.

Contents:

1 Staying 23

2 Maintaining 47

3 Repeating 69

4 Delaying 93

5 Enduring 115

6 Recalling 139

7 Remaining 159

8 Ending 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index.

ISBN:

1350008125

9781350008120

1350008117

9781350008113

OCLC:

960088988