Time

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ISBN: 9780745627779

ISBN-10: 0745627773

ISBN-13: 9780745627779

Edition: 2004

Authors: Barbara Adam

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What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the reader on a journey of discovery that extends from ancient mythology and classical philosophy to the contemporary social world of high-speed computer networks and globalized social relations. The book poses key questions about the nature of time, how it is conceptualized, what it means in practice and how the parameters set by nature have been transcended across the ages by the human quest for time…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 4/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Prologue



What is Time?.Interlude: Time Is



Time Stories


Gods of Time


In the Beginning


Paradise and the Fall


Encounters with Death


Journeys to the Otherworld


Cycles of Renewal and Regeneration


Beyond Death: Resurrection and Redemption


Reflections: Myth for Today's Theory and Practice


Interlude: Representations of Time



Time Theories



Western Philosophy: From Ontology to Epistemology


Natural Science: Clockwork Universe and Change


Enlightenment Theories: A Priori and Dialectic


Social Theory: Practice, Value and Category


Interlude: Time Perspectives



Time Theories



Western Philosophy: Time Within


The Sciences of System-Specific Times


Social Theory and the Past, Present and Future



What is the Role of Time in Social Life?


Interlude: Time Transcendence



Cultural Practices of Time Transcendence


Making Time Stand Still


Knowing Fate, Forging Futures


Creating Immortality and Permanence


Modifying Nature's Times and Rhythms


Superimposing Phases and Social Structure


Interlude: Body Time, Clock Time, Social Time



In Pursuit of Time Know-how


Reckoning Time


Creating Clock Time


Mobilising World Time


Networking Instantaneity


Interlude: Time Complexities & Hierarchies



The Quest for Time Control


Commodification


Compressions


Colonization


Control


Interlude: Futures


Epilogue


Further Reading


Bibliography


Index