An essay on time
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An essay on time
（The collected works of Norbert Elias, v. 9）
University College Dublin Press, 2007
Rev., complete English ed
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Über die Zeit
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Translation of: Über die Zeit / Norbert Elias
Originally published: Frankfurt/Main : Suhrkamp, 1984
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-166) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this profound book, Elias characteristically turns an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is neither an innate property of the human mind nor an immutable quality of the 'external' world. Rather it is an achievement of the human capacity for 'synthesis', for using symbolic thought to make connections between two or more sequences of events. In the course of human social development, that capacity has itself changed and developed. It is originally written in English. Two later additional sections have been translated by Edmund Jephcott.
Table of Contents
- Norbert Elias, 1897-1990
- Note on the text
- Preface by Norbert Elias
- An essay on time
- Textual variants
- Bibliography
- Index.
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