What, Then, Is Time?

by Brann, Eva

• ISBN13: 9780847692934
• ISBN10: 0847692930
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

What is time? Well-known philosopher and intellectual historian, Eva Brann mounts an inquiry into a subject universally agreed to be among the most familiar and the most strange of human experiences. Brann approaches questions of time through the study of ten famous texts by such thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, showing how they bring to light the perennial issues regarding time. She also offers her independent reflections.

Author Biography

Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE. PRESENTATIONS
External Time: Time as Motion	3	(32)
Plato and Einstein: Time as a Clock	4	(17)
Plato: The Cosmic Clock	4	(3)
Einstein: The Local Clock	7	(5)
Time among the Physicists	12	(3)
Fallacies	15	(1)
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness	16	(1)
The Pathetic Fallacy	17	(1)
Division of the Field	18	(1)
Leibniz: Relation of Succession	19	(1)
Table of Theories of Time	20	(1)
Hegel and Bergson: Time Out of Space	21	(14)
Hegel: Time as the Truth of Space	22	(7)
Bergson: Space as the Falsehood of Time	29	(6)
Aristotle and Kant: The Counting Soul	35	(60)
Aristotle	36	(17)
The Being of Time	36	(3)
The Elements of Time	39	(1)
Magnitude	39	(1)
Motion	40	(1)
Before-and-After	41	(1)
Number	42	(1)
Now	43	(2)
Soul	45	(2)
Clocks	47	(3)
Time	50	(1)
Phases	51	(2)
Kant	53	(42)
Receptivity and Human Finitude	58	(3)
Sensibility: Space and Time	61	(2)
Space	63	(1)
Time	64	(2)
Time and Thinking	66	(1)
Concepts	66	(1)
Judgment and Imagination	67	(1)
The Schema	68	(1)
The Priority of Time	69	(1)
The Schemata	69	(3)
Counting	72	(2)
Time and Space	74	(1)
Analogies of Experience	75	(3)
The Refutation of Idealism	78	(1)
Inner Sense	79	(1)
The ``I Think''	80	(1)
Representing Time	81	(1)
Representing the Soul	81	(3)
The Phases of Time	84	(1)
The Synthesis of Apprehension in Intution	85	(2)
The Synthesis of Reproduction in the Imagination	87	(2)
The Synthesis of Recognition in a Concept	89	(1)
The Future	90	(5)
Plotinus and Heidegger: The Grounding of Time	95	(16)
Plotinus	96	(4)
Heidegger	100	(11)
Augustine and Husserl: The Stretching of the Mind	111	(46)
Augustine	112	(14)
Memory	114	(2)
Time	116	(1)
``In the Beginning''	116	(1)
The Questionable Question	117	(1)
Creation-Time	118	(1)
Measuring Time	119	(1)
The Pivotal Present	120	(1)
The Stretching of the Mind	120	(2)
A Putative Diagram	122	(1)
Before the Beginning	123	(1)
The Image of Eternity	124	(2)
Husserl	126	(31)
The Perennial Question	126	(1)
The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness	127	(4)
Predecessors	131	(3)
The Diagram of Time	134	(5)
Retention and Other Time-Terms	139	(1)
Perception	139	(1)
Primal Impression	140	(1)
Retention	141	(3)
Protention	144	(1)
Memory	145	(2)
Expectation	147	(1)
Double Intentionality	148	(1)
Absolute Time	149	(1)
The Absolute Time-Flow	149	(4)
Newton: Absolute Time	153	(1)
The Commonality of Time	154	(3)
PART TWO: REFLECTIONS	157	(60)
The Phases of Time: The Human Dimension	163	(26)
Time and Imagination: Flux and Fusion	163	(3)
Past and Memory	166	(6)
Future and Expectation	172	(3)
Present and Perception	175	(5)
Time-Pathologies: Phase-Fixations	180	(2)
The Strutting Point: The Preoccupying Now	182	(1)
The Slouching Beast: The Oncoming Future	183	(2)
The Night of Time: The Dead Past	185	(1)
A Cure: The Atemporal Past	186	(3)
Time: The Potent Nonentity	189	(28)
What Times Is Not	189	(10)
What, Then, Is Time?	199	(18)
Reference Bibliography	217	(8)
Index	225	(12)
About the Author	237