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Philosoph y a nd Tempor a lit y
from Kant to Critical Theory
This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European
tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception
of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western
modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles
and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that
ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and
Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this,
together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship
between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern
world’s linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich
exploration of an enduring philosophical theme:Âthe role of temporality
in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.
espen hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University,
Philadelphia. He is the author of Stanley Cavell:ÂSkepticism, Subjectivity, and
the Ordinary (2002) and Adorno and the Political (2005), and the editor of
German Idealism:ÂContemporary Perspectives (2007).
MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
General Editor
WAYNE MARTIN, University of Essex
Advisory Board
SEBASTIAN GARDNER, University College, London
BEATRICE HAN-PILE, University of Essex
HANS SLUGA, University of California, Berkeley
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