The Tempo of Modernity

In linking together a set of thinkers who addressed temporal consciousness, Gabriel R. Ricci illuminates a common intellectual preoccupation from the vantage point of a concept. The authors do not together assemble the thought; it is the thought that produced a collective voice. This voice appears in the episodes outlined in each chapter, framed by an introduction, which explores Joseph Frank's insights into spatial forms in literature, and an epilogue, which resurrects J.W. Dunne's...
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In linking together a set of thinkers who addressed temporal consciousness, Gabriel R. Ricci illuminates a common intellectual preoccupation from the vantage point of a concept. The authors do not together assemble the thought; it is the thought that produced a collective voice. This voice appears in the episodes outlined in each chapter, framed by an introduction, which explores Joseph Frank's insights into spatial forms in literature, and an epilogue, which resurrects J.W. Dunne's dream experiments and theory of precognition.