The Philosophy of Time: Time before Times

by Roger McLure

Overview

The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time. Is time perceptible only through the veil of change? Or is there a naked presence of 'time itself'? Or has time always effaced itself?
McClure's new work also stages confrontations between phenomenology of time and analytical philosophy of time. By doing so he explores ancient issues from a fresh perspective, such as whether time passes, whether experimental time is 'real time', and whether the very concept of time is contradictory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415331784
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2004
Series:	Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roger McClure is Lecturer in French at Keele University, Staffordshire. He has published widely on the subjects of linguistics, literature and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Note on the text, Introduction, PART I: Contrasts, 1. Time as creative process: Bergson, 2. Time as time-consciousness: Husserl, 3. Time beyond being: Levinas, PART II: Confrontations, 4. The language of time, 5. McTaggart and Husserl, 6. Is phenomenological time real time?, Notes, Bibliography, Index