Guyau and the idea of time
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Guyau and the idea of time
North-Holland, 1988
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At head of title: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 136
Includes index
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This volume revives a most remarkable essay by the French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-1888) on the genesis of our idea of Time. The original text, La Genese de l'idee de temps , written in Guyau's widely acclaimed style, is accompanied here by its first translation into English, and by several chapters highlighting Guyau's thought and contemporary significance. Central to his argument is his thesis that time is an acquired organisation of representations enabling humans to store and remember past events. The cognitive functions or strategies that realize this organisation nearly always establish coherent episodes that are situated in concrete, spatially defined contexts. Such a position is remarkably consistent with modern cognitive views about knowledge representation and memory. Guyau is in fact so modern that readers may at times forget they are reading a century-old text.
Table of Contents
Preface (J.A. Michon). Foreword (P. Fraisse) Jean-Marie Guyau: Life and Ideas (J.A. Michon, with V. Pouthas and J.L. Jackson). La genese de l'idee de temps (J.-M. Guyau). Bibliography of Jean-Marie Guyau (compiled by J.A. Michon). The Origin of the Idea of Time by Jean-Marie Guyau (translated by J.A. Pouchon, V. Pouthas and C. Greenbaum). From Kant to Guyau (P. Ricoeur). Guyau's Idea of Time: A Cognitive View (J.A. Michon). A Developmental Psychological Perspective on Guyau's `The Origin of the Idea of Time' (W.J. Friedman). Guyau on the Illusions of Time: Normal and Pathological (F.T. Melges). Author Index. Subject Index.
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