This volume addresses from different perspectives the key questions posed by the moment and thereby elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened by the moment.
Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasising?the moment?.?The moment? demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition, rupture and continuity. This collection addresses the key questions posed by?…
Families & time: keeping pace in a hurried culture
Families & time: keeping pace in a hurried culture
Families & time: keeping pace in a hurried culture
Families & Time: Keeping Pace in a Hurried Culture
What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways: fami…
Time as a metaphor of history: early India
It has long been maintained that the only concept of time known to early India was cyclic. This in part accounts for the Indian denial of history, since a sense of history is based on linear time. This study sets the argument in the context of links between time and history. It …
Time as a metaphor of history: early India
It has long been maintained that the only concept of time known to early India was cyclic. This in part accounts for the Indian denial of history, since a sense of history is based on linear time. This study sets the argument in the context of links between time and history. It …
Time forms such an important part of our lives that it is rarely thought about. In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in…
Time forms such an important part of our lives that it is rarely thought about. In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in…