The ethics of time : a phenomenology and hermeneutics of change /
The Ethics of Time" explores a rather uncharted field in philosophy, namely the ethical implications of time. It does so by utilizing the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics. On the one hand, its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenom...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
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| Summary: | The Ethics of Time" explores a rather uncharted field in philosophy, namely the ethical implications of time. It does so by utilizing the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics. On the one hand, its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, while on the other hand, it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as, Augustine's Confessions and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, among others. Nevertheless, this book makes a claim to originality, as it does not provide a commentary on any single text or thinker. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages literature, theology and the arts more generally. It takes seriously phenomenology's claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the "ethical" self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 209 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474299164 9781474299169 |