Philosophy and temporality from Kant to critical theory

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammer, Espen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
Series:Modern European philosophy
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The historicity of time
  • 2. Modern temporality
  • 3. Two responses to the time of modernity
  • 4. Hegel's temporalization of the absolute
  • 5. Schopenhauer and transcendence
  • 6. Time and myth in the early Nietzsche
  • 7. Recurrence and authenticity: the later Nietzsche on time
  • 8. Heidegger on boredom and modernity
  • 9. A modernist critique of postmodern temporality
  • Conclusion