1st Edition

The Philosophy of Time Time before Times

By Roger McLure Copyright 2005
230 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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