Author: Nathan Widder
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271033940
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Reflections on Time and Politics
Author: Nathan Widder
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271033940
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271033940
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Reflections in Time
Author: Elizabeth Crane
Publisher: Love Spell
ISBN: 9780505520890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Turning to hypnotism to cure her sleeping problems, Renata O'Neal finds herself transported back in time to 1880s Louisiana and married to a handsome stranger, but the Victorian morals of the time hamper her new marriage. Original.
Publisher: Love Spell
ISBN: 9780505520890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Turning to hypnotism to cure her sleeping problems, Renata O'Neal finds herself transported back in time to 1880s Louisiana and married to a handsome stranger, but the Victorian morals of the time hamper her new marriage. Original.
Of Time and Lamentation
Author: Raymond Tallis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788210225
Category : Time
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original, and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons, and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation, and grief. Thinking about it is to meditate on our own mortality. Yet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is lived. The story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory, and Lorentz coordinates, Tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces, and the long narratives of our human journey. Our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physics. The first part of the book, "Killing Time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical science. Part 2, "Human Time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788210225
Category : Time
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original, and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons, and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation, and grief. Thinking about it is to meditate on our own mortality. Yet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is lived. The story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory, and Lorentz coordinates, Tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces, and the long narratives of our human journey. Our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physics. The first part of the book, "Killing Time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical science. Part 2, "Human Time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternity.
All in Good Time
Author: George Daniels
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857732846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857732846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Sculpting in Time
Author: Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292776241
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292776241
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change
Author: Frank A. Rinehart
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive collection of one hundred black-and-white images of Native American leaders made by Frank A. Rinehart from 1898 to 1900, and includes fourteen essays which reflect upon those photographs from writers, educators, and descendents of those individuals.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive collection of one hundred black-and-white images of Native American leaders made by Frank A. Rinehart from 1898 to 1900, and includes fourteen essays which reflect upon those photographs from writers, educators, and descendents of those individuals.
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In the Time of the Right
Author: Suzanne Pharr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A progressive view of the politics of our time that is accessible to students, activists & all who are trying to understand the current threat to democracy posed by the Right. This blend of personal anecdote & contemporary cutting-edge analysis - combined with the vision of a multi-cultural, multi-racial liberation movement - provides a powerful call to action for each of us. Includes discussion of domination politics, the Right & their agenda, homophobia & racism as strategies of division, & suggestions for personal & organizational philosophies & practices that foster a true liberation movement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A progressive view of the politics of our time that is accessible to students, activists & all who are trying to understand the current threat to democracy posed by the Right. This blend of personal anecdote & contemporary cutting-edge analysis - combined with the vision of a multi-cultural, multi-racial liberation movement - provides a powerful call to action for each of us. Includes discussion of domination politics, the Right & their agenda, homophobia & racism as strategies of division, & suggestions for personal & organizational philosophies & practices that foster a true liberation movement.
The Suspension of Time
Author: Daniel Slager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571313263
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Standing over six feet tall and fourteen feet wide and spanning three wood panels 'The Fulbright Triptych' is a masterpiece of contemporary American art. Reproducing a vast array of visual, literary, and historical references, this striking family tableau inspires and challenges the viewer to reflect on the meaning of time, the construction of experience, the nature of family, and the wonder of art's creation. Singular in its rich range of contributors--writers and actors, poets and musicians, professors and composers--'The Suspension of Time' collects a series of meditations on this extraordinary painting. The result is a rich dialogue of symphonic connectivity that explores Guy Davenport's notion that 'Art is always an invention inside a tradition'"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571313263
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Standing over six feet tall and fourteen feet wide and spanning three wood panels 'The Fulbright Triptych' is a masterpiece of contemporary American art. Reproducing a vast array of visual, literary, and historical references, this striking family tableau inspires and challenges the viewer to reflect on the meaning of time, the construction of experience, the nature of family, and the wonder of art's creation. Singular in its rich range of contributors--writers and actors, poets and musicians, professors and composers--'The Suspension of Time' collects a series of meditations on this extraordinary painting. The result is a rich dialogue of symphonic connectivity that explores Guy Davenport's notion that 'Art is always an invention inside a tradition'"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of cover.
Essays from the Nick of Time
Author: Mark Slouka
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970141
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished "to improve the nick of time . . . to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future." At this bewildering convergence, Slouka asks us to consider what it means to be human and what we must revive, or reject, in order to retain our humanity in the modern world. Collected over fifteen years, these essays include fascinating explorations of the relationship between memory and history and the nature of "tragedy" in a media-driven culture; meditations on the transcendent "wisdom" of the natural world and the role of silence in an age of noise; and arguments in defense of the political value of leisure time and the importance of the humanities in an age defined by the language of science and industry. Written in Slouka's supple and unerring prose, celebratory, critical, and passionate, Essays from the Nick of Time reawakens us to the moment and place in which we find ourselves, caught between the fading presence of the past and the neon lure of the future.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970141
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished "to improve the nick of time . . . to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future." At this bewildering convergence, Slouka asks us to consider what it means to be human and what we must revive, or reject, in order to retain our humanity in the modern world. Collected over fifteen years, these essays include fascinating explorations of the relationship between memory and history and the nature of "tragedy" in a media-driven culture; meditations on the transcendent "wisdom" of the natural world and the role of silence in an age of noise; and arguments in defense of the political value of leisure time and the importance of the humanities in an age defined by the language of science and industry. Written in Slouka's supple and unerring prose, celebratory, critical, and passionate, Essays from the Nick of Time reawakens us to the moment and place in which we find ourselves, caught between the fading presence of the past and the neon lure of the future.