Taming Time : Daoist Ways of Working with Multiple Temporalities / Livia Kohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohn, Livia, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Taoism.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

St. Petersburg, Florida : Three Pines Press, [2021]

Summary:

Time is a key feature in all cultures, determining thought, actions, and developments. J. T. Fraser, describes it in six temporalities that move at different speeds in unique environments: the atemporal state of primordial chaos, the prototemporal realm of quantum simultaneity, the eotemporal rhythms of the stars, the biotemporal dimensions of living creatures, the noötemporal phenomena of the mind, and the sociotemporal world of calendars, history, and philosophy. This book examines Daoism in all these modes, beginning with language, the "architect of time," then moving through all six types, in each chapter offering also modern scientific and comparative perspectives. Daoists, it turns out, often match science in terms of basic concepts, but offer different practices to reverse entropy, overcome limitations, and ultimately tame time by going beyond it. Taming Time is encyclopedic in scope and global in outlook. It challenges preconceived notions and raises new perspectives in the study of time as it expertly clarifies Daoist visions.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kohn, Livia Taming Time

ISBN:

9781931483544

OCLC:

1294344120