What, Then, Is Time?

Eva Brann

doi:10.5771/9781461621751

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. Examining the three phases of time, past, present, and future, she argues that neither external time nor the time of the human past is real: the one is a comparison of motions and the other a projection of memory. She concludes that true time is internal and has its origin in the imaginative structure of memory and expectation. Throughout her rich and original study, Brann never fudges the central fact that time is a mystery.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2001
Copyright Year: 2001
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9292-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-2175-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. PREFACE No access
1. 1. 1. I. Plato: The Cosmic Clock No access
    2. II. Einstein: The Local Clock No access
    3. III. Time among the Physicists No access
    4. 1. 1. The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness No access
      2. 2. The Pathetic Fallacy No access
    5. 1. 1. Leibniz: Relation of Succession No access
      2. 2. Table of Theories of Time No access
  2. 1. I. Hegel: Time as the Truth of Space No access
    2. II. Bergson: Space as the Falsehood of Time No access
2. 1. 1. I. The Being of Time No access
    2. 1. 1. Magnitude No access
      2. 2. Motion No access
      3. 3. Before-and-After No access
      4. 4. Number No access
      5. 5. Now No access
      6. 6. Soul No access
      7. 7. Clocks No access
    3. III. Time No access
    4. IV. Phases No access
  2. 1. I. Receptivity and Human Finitude No access
    2. 1. 1. Space No access
      2. 2. Time No access
    3. 1. 1. Concepts No access
      2. 2. Judgment and Imagination No access
      3. 3. The Schema No access
      4. 4. The Priority of Time No access
      5. 5. The Schemata No access
      6. 6. Counting No access
    4. 1. 1. Analogies of Experience No access
      2. 2. The Refutation of Idealism No access
    5. 1. 1. The "I Think" No access
      2. 2. Representing Time No access
      3. 3. Representing the Soul No access
    6. 1. 1. The Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition No access
      2. 2. The Synthesis of Reproduction in the Imagination No access
      3. 3. The Synthesis of Recognition in a Concept No access
      4. 4. The Future No access
3. 1. A. Plotinus No access
  2. B. Heidegger No access
4. 1. A. Augustine No access
  2. I. Memory No access
  3. 1. 1. "In the Beginning" No access
    2. 2. The Questionable Question No access
    3. 3. Creation-Time No access
    4. 4 Measuring Time No access
    5. 5. The Pivotal Present No access
    6. 6. The Stretching of the Mind No access
    7. 7. A Putative Diagram No access
    8. 8. Before the Beginning No access
    9. 9. The Image of Eternity No access
  4. B. Husserl No access
  5. I. The Perennial Question No access
  6. II. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness No access
  7. III. Predecessors No access
  8. IV. The Diagram of Time No access
  9. 1. 1. Perception No access
    2. 2. Primal Impression No access
    3. 3. Retention No access
    4. 4. Protention No access
    5. 5. Memory No access
    6. 6. Expectation No access
  10. VI. Double Intentionality No access
  11. 1. 1. The Absolute Time-Flow No access
    2. 2. Newton: Absolute Time No access
  12. VIII. The Commonality of Time No access
1. 1. 1. 1. Past and Memory No access
    2. 2. Future and Expectation No access
    3. 3. Present and Perception No access
  2. 1. 1. The Strutting Point: The Preoccupying Now No access
    2. 2. The Slouching Beast: The Oncomming Future No access
    3. 3. The Night of Time: The Dead Past No access
    4. 4. A Cure: The Atemporal Past No access
2. 1. I. What Time Is Not No access
  2. II. What, Then, Is Time? No access
Reference Bibliography No access Pages 217 - 224
Index No access Pages 225 - 236
About the Author No access Pages 237 - 238