Johannes Fabian takes an historical look at anthropology to demonstrate the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of uses of Time. Anthropological theory, from its beginnings in philosophy and linguistics, has provided Western thought and politics with deep-rooted image…
"Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufu…
This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4-6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on…
Einstein vs. Bergson: an Enduring Quarrel on Time
by Klein, Etienne, Wittmann, Marc, Weber, Michel, Montemayor, Carlos, During, Élie, Wüthrich, Christian, Ronchi, Rocco, Rovelli, Carlo, Vanzago, Luca, Campo, Alessandra, Coccia, Eugenio, Bersanelli, Marco, Calosi, Claudio, Dolev, Yuval, Donati, Donatella, Dorato, Mauro, Dumoncel, Jean-Claude, Gozzano, Simone, Longo, Giuseppe, Miquel, Paul-Antoine, Montebello, Pierre, Morganti, Matteo, Segall, Matthew D.
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This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4-6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on…
Place and time in argumentation
Place and time in argumentation
This book introduces the principles of place and time by discussing the main roles they play in argumentation, unpacking the multifarious meanings of spatiality and temporality. Definitions of kairos are explored to yield suggestions as to how this concept, and that of place, ca…
The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions : archaeological, medical, technological…
The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions - archaeological, medical, technological…
"Prehistory is an invention of the later nineteenth century. It was in this moment of technological progress and the acceleration of production and circulation, that three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into …
"We slip away from ourselves" : the discovery and internalization of the Earth's age (eighteenth to twentieth centuries) -- Reconstituting the antiquity of humankind and of art -- The artificiality of prehistory : a disjunctive genealogy of art -- The paradox of the Neolithic : …