Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory Modern European Philosophy Hardcover

This Book Is A Critical Analysis Of How Key Philosophers In The European Tradition Have Responded To The Emergence Of A Modern Conception Of Temporality. Espen Hammer Suggests That It Is A Feature Of Western Modernity That Time Has Been Forcibly Separated From The Natural Cycles And Processes With Which It Used To Be Associated. In A Discussion That Ranges Over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger And Adorno, He Examines The Forms Of Dissatisfaction Which Result From This, Together With Narrative Modes Of Configuring Time, The Relationship Between Agency And Temporality, And Possible Challenges To The Modern World's Linear And Homogenous Experience Of Time. His Study Is A Rich Exploration Of An Enduring Philosophical Theme: The Role Of Temporality In Shaping And Reshaping Modern Human Affairs--,This Book Is A Critical Analysis Of How Key Philosophers In The European Tradition Have Responded To The Emergence Of A Modern Conception Of Temporality. Espen Hammer Suggests That It Is A Feature Of Western Modernity That Time Has Been Forcibly Separated From The Natural Cycles And Processes With Which It Used To Be Associated. In A Discussion That Ranges Over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, And Adorno, He Examines The Forms Of Dissatisfaction Which Result From This, Together With Narrative Modes Of Configuring Time, The Relationship Between Agency And Temporality, And Possible Challenges To The Modern World's Linear And Homogenous Experience Of Time. His Study Is A Rich Exploration Of An Enduring Philosophical Theme: The Role Of Temporality In Shaping And Reshaping Modern Human Affairs-- Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 5 Title......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Introduction......Page 13 Physical vs. social time......Page 23 Time-consciousness......Page 30 Three levels of temporal mediation......Page 45 2 Modern temporality......Page 49 The process of modernization......Page 50 The temporality of purposive-rational action......Page 62 Temporal alienation and its consequences......Page 65 Kant, Habermas, and autonomy......Page 70 A neo-Aristotelian rejoinder......Page 78 4 Hegel’s temporalization of the absolute......Page 83 Hegel’s metaphysical account of time......Page 85 Tensions in Hegel’s understanding of modern temporality......Page 97 5 Schopenhauer and transcendence......Page 109 The critique of Hegel......Page 111 The theory of time......Page 115 Transience and nihilism......Page 123 6 Time and myth in the early Nietzsche......Page 137 Nietzsche on tragedy and modernity......Page 139 Eliade and repetition......Page 150 From history to life......Page 156 The doctrine of eternal recurrence......Page 160 Heidegger on Nietzsche’s account of revenge......Page 166 8 Heidegger on boredom and modernity......Page 173 Towards a theory of boredom......Page 174 Being bored with something......Page 184 Boredom and authenticity......Page 191 9 A modernist critique of postmodern temporality......Page 200 The time of the present......Page 202 Ernst Bloch on anticipatory consciousness......Page 211 Experience, beauty, transcendence......Page 224 Narration......Page 234 Conclusion......Page 248 Bibliography......Page 255 Index......Page 267 "This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs"--Provided by publisher NL-ZmNBD "This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs"-- Provided by publisher "This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs"--Résumé de l'éditeur