Chronotypes : the construction of time / edited by John Bender and David E. Wellbery.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1991Edition: [First edition]Description: xi, 257 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0804719101
  • 9780804719100
  • 0804719128
  • 9780804719124
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Time in physical and narrative structure / Bastiaan C. Van Fraassen -- Time and creation / Cornelius Castoriadis -- A slip in time saves nine : prestigious origins again / Jonathan Z. Smith -- The time of telling and the telling of time in written and oral cultures / Jack Goody -- Time and timing : law and history / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The temporality of rhetoric / Dominick LaCapra -- The constitution of human life in time / Thomas Luckmann -- Synchronizing individual time, family time, and historical time / Tamara K. Hareven -- Of dogs alive, birds dead, and time to tell a story / Johannes Fabian -- La Fontaine and Wamimbi : the anthropology of "time-present" as the substructure of historical oration / David William Cohen.
Review: "Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention--including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the "new" time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the "postmodern turn" now manifest in many areas of intellectual endeavor, especially in the humanities and social sciences." ""Chronotypes" are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Time is not given but (as the subtitle indicates) fabricated in an ongoing process. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. They interact, they change over time, and they have histories, whose construal is itself an act of temporal construction." "This book--an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, historians, literary critics, and anthropologists--examines the ways individuals, societies, and cultures make sense of time by constructing it in diverse patterns. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room BD638 .C48 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000028973

Includes bibliographical references (229-253) and index.

Time in physical and narrative structure / Bastiaan C. Van Fraassen -- Time and creation / Cornelius Castoriadis -- A slip in time saves nine : prestigious origins again / Jonathan Z. Smith -- The time of telling and the telling of time in written and oral cultures / Jack Goody -- Time and timing : law and history / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The temporality of rhetoric / Dominick LaCapra -- The constitution of human life in time / Thomas Luckmann -- Synchronizing individual time, family time, and historical time / Tamara K. Hareven -- Of dogs alive, birds dead, and time to tell a story / Johannes Fabian -- La Fontaine and Wamimbi : the anthropology of "time-present" as the substructure of historical oration / David William Cohen.

"Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention--including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the "new" time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the "postmodern turn" now manifest in many areas of intellectual endeavor, especially in the humanities and social sciences." ""Chronotypes" are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Time is not given but (as the subtitle indicates) fabricated in an ongoing process. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. They interact, they change over time, and they have histories, whose construal is itself an act of temporal construction." "This book--an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, historians, literary critics, and anthropologists--examines the ways individuals, societies, and cultures make sense of time by constructing it in diverse patterns. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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Collection of abstract andt advanced article on the nature of timesytems

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