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The images of time : an essay on temporal representation / Robin Le Poidevin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Time.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations
Other Title:
Essay on temporal representation
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. These apparently disparate questions all concern the ways in which we represent aspects of time, in thought, experience, art and fiction. They also raisefundamental problems for our philosophical understanding, both of mental representation, and of the nature of time itself. Le Poid
Contents:
The project
Causal theories of representation
Egocentric and objective representation
Retracing the past : memory and passage
Projecting the present : the shock of the now
The wider view : precedence and duration
Image and instant : the pictorial representation of time
The fictional future
The unity of time and narrative.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-187) and index.
Description based on print version record.
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ISBN:
0-19-957551-7
1-281-16430-5
9786611164300
0-19-153276-2
1-4356-2231-6
OCLC:
191047996

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