The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy

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Springer, Dordrecht

2016

259 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-24893-6

The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy

a philosophical thematic atlas

Edited by

Flavia Santoianni

This book presents a collection of authoritative contributions on the concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy. It is structured in the form of a thematic atlas: each section is accompanied by relevant elementary logic maps that reproduce in a "spatial" form the directionalities (arguments and/or discourses) reported on in the text. The book is divided into three main sections, the first of which covers phenomenology and the perception of time by analyzing the works of Bergson, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Guattariand Derrida. The second section focuses on the language and conceptualization of time, examining the works of Cassirer, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Lacan, Ricoeur and Foucault, while the last section addresses the science and logic of time as they appear in the works of Guillaume, Einstein, Reichenbach, Prigogine and Barbour. The purpose of the book is threefold: to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy; to show how conceptual reasoning can be supported by accompanying linguistic and spatial representations; and to stimulate novel research in the humanistic field concerning the complex role of graphic representations in the comprehension of concepts.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24895-0

Full citation:

Santoianni, F. (ed) (2016). The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy: a philosophical thematic atlas, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Diana Rosario

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