The Many Faces of Time (Contributions to Phenomenology, 41)

Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. Husserl's groundbreaking investigations of the consciousness of internal time early in the century inaugurated a phenomenological tradition enriched by such figures as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Eugen Fink. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it. Many of the essays explore topics involving the deepest levels of temporal constitution, including the relationship of temporality to the self and to the world; the ways in which temporalizing consciousness and what it temporalizes present themselves; and the roles and nature of present, past, and future. Other essays develop original positions concerning history, tradition, narrative, the time of generations, the coherence of one's life, and the place of time in the visual arts. In every instance, the authors show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-24 Hyletic and Kinetic Facticity of the Absolute Flow and World Creation....Pages 25-35 Time and Formal Authenticity: Husserl and Heidegger....Pages 37-65 There Is More to the Phenomenology of Time than Meets the Eye....Pages 67-84 There’s No Time Like the Present: How to Mind the Now....Pages 85-111 About the Future: What Phenomenology Can Reveal....Pages 113-126 Time, History, and Tradition....Pages 127-147 Temporality and Historicity: Phenomenology of History Beyond Narratology....Pages 149-165 Generative Experience of Time....Pages 167-186 Life Is Not Literature....Pages 187-201 Times Squared: Historical Time in Sartre and Foucault....Pages 203-222 Plastic Time: Time and the Visual Arts....Pages 223-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-251