The Time of Our Lives: A Critical History of Temporality

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-262-51736-2
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 325 g

Reihe: Mit Press

The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and with human finitude runs through the history of philosophy as an ultimate concern. In this genealogy of the concept of temporality, David Hoy examines the emergence in a post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of the time of our lives rather than on the time of the universe. Hoy engages with competing theoretical tactics for reconciling us to our fleeting temporality, drawing on work by Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Sartre, Bourdieu, Foucault, Bergson, Deleuze, iek, and Derrida. Hoy considers four existential strategies for coping with the apparent flow of temporality, including Prousts passive and Walter Benjamins active reconciliation through memory, ieks critique of poststructuralist politics, Foucaults confrontation with the temporality of power, and Deleuzes account of Aion and Chronos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoy, David Couzens

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Über Autor(innen)

Hoy, David Couzens
David Couzens Hoy is Distinguished Professor of Philosphy Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique (MIT Press, 2004).

David Couzens Hoy is Distinguished Professor of Philosphy Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.