Time's Urgency

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40823-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: The Study of Time

The Study of Time XVI: Time’s Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST’s previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines.



This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times.



Contributors are Julian Barbour, Dennis Costa, Kerstin Cuhls, Ileana da Silva, Margaret K. Devinney, Sonia Front, Peter A. Hancock, Paul Harris, Rose Harris-Birtill, David Mitchell, Carlos Montemayor, Jo Alyson Parker, Katie Paterson, Walter Schweidler, Raji C. Steineck, Daniela Tan, Frederick Turner, Thomas P. Weissert, Marc Wolterbeek, and Barry Wood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montemayor, Carlos

Daniel, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Carlos Montemayor

Introductory Essays

1 A New Theory of Time’s Arrows

Julian Barbour

2 ‘Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself’: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds (Winner of the 2016 New Scholar’s Prize)

Rose Harris-Birtill

part 1: Dialogues

3 Archivists of the Future

Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell

4 Presidential Address: Should We Give Up “Time”?

Raji C. Steineck

5 Time as an Open Concept: A Response to Raji Steineck

Carlos Montemayor

6 Zero-Time Theory

Peter A. Hancock

7 Deconstructing the Zero Time Theory

Frederick Turner

8 Time’s up: Clarifying Misunderstandings of Zero-Time Theory

Peter A. Hancock

part 2: Urgency and Time Scales

9 Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for Closure

Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert

10 Petrotemporality at Siccar Point: James Hutton’s Deep Time Narrative

Barry Wood

11 Time’s Urgency Ritualized: The Centrality and Authority of Mayan Calendars

Margaret K. Devinney

12 Telling Time: Literary Rituals and Trauma

Daniela Tan

13 Sequence and Duration in Graphic Novels

Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek

14 “There’s More Than One of Everything”: Time Complexity in Fringe

Sonia Front

15 Foresight and Urgency: The Discrepancy between Long-Term Thinking and Short-Term Decision-Making

Kerstin Cuhls

16 “More Than Watchmen”: Dante on Urgency in Ritual

Dennis Costa

17 Time’s Redeeming Urgency

Walter Schweidler

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Montemayor, Ph.D. (2009) Rutgers University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (Brill, 2013), co-author (with Harry H. Haladjian) of Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (MIT Press, 2015) and co-author (with Abrol Fairweather) of Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Robert R. Daniel Jr., Ph.D. (1992) Vanderbilt University, is Assistant Professor at Saint Joseph’s University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Daniel is the author of the book The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire: Two Worlds, One Human Condition (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997).