Origins and futures : time inflected and reflected / / edited by Raji C. Steineck and Claudia Clausius.
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected provokes an interdisciplinary dialogue about culture, politics, and science’s strategies to divert the relentless trajectory of time. Literature, socio-political policy, physics, among other subjects, demonstrate the human refusal to enlist in tempor...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Study of Time
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Raji Steineck and Claudia Clausius
- Founder’s Lecture: The Origin of the Integrated Study of Time / J.T. Fraser
- The Search for Origins as Detective Story: Detecting Datelines and the Mystery of Origins / Paul A. Harris
- On the Social Origin of Time in Language / Walter Schweidler
- The Origins of Language and Narrative Temporalities / Rosemary Huisman
- Narrative Fiction: Writing towards the Origin / Sabine Gross
- Origins as Futures in the Time Plays of J.B. Priestley / Carol Fischer
- Big Science: Marching Forward to the Past / Michael Crawford
- The Past-Future Asymmetry / Friedel Weinert
- The Human Temporal Condition between Memory and Hope / Steven Ostovich
- Bachelard’s “Discontinuous Bergsonism” in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”: How Self-Generation of “Pure Time” Engenders Free Choice / Patricia McCloskey Engle
- Tales of Time and Terror: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History and the Narrative Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe / Marcus Bullock
- The Future of August 6th 1945: A Case of the ‘Peaceful Utilization’ of Nuclear Energy in Japan / Masae Yuasa
- Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future / Karmen MacKendrick
- Index.