Are We in Time? And Other Essays on Time and Temporality |
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| Author:
| Sherover, Charles |
| Editor:
| Johnson, Gregory R. |
| Series title: | Topics in Historical Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1945-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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The summa of a distinguished philosopher's career, and full treatment of the temporal in philosophical terms, this volume shows us that by taking time seriously we can discover something essential to almost every question of human concern. Are we IN time? Charles Sherover asks, and in pursuing this question he considers time in conjunction with cognition, morality, action, physical nature, being, God, freedom, and politics. His essays, while drawing upon Royce, Heidegger,...
More Description The summa of a distinguished philosopher's career, and full treatment of the temporal in philosophical terms, this volume shows us that by taking time seriously we can discover something essential to almost every question of human concern. Are we IN time? Charles Sherover asks, and in pursuing this question he considers time in conjunction with cognition, morality, action, physical nature, being, God, freedom, and politics. His essays, while drawing upon Royce, Heidegger, Kant, Leibniz, and even Hartshorne and Bergson, defy categorization by method or school; instead, they reveal the diversity and divergence of thinking about time as well as the myriad features and values within the omnipresence of time and change.