The timespace of human activity : on performance, society, and history as indeterminate teleological events
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The timespace of human activity : on performance, society, and history as indeterminate teleological events
(Toposophia)
Lexington Books, 2013, c2010
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Note
Pagination numbering irregular (xxii p., p. 23-86, 65-255)
Bibliography: p. 233-245
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of sociohistorical change as well.
Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues (1) that timespace is a key component of the overall space and time of social life, (2) that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of important social phenomena such as power, coordinated actions, social organizations, and social systems, and (3) that history encompasses constellations of indeterminate temporalspatial events. The latter conception of history in turn yields a propitious account of how the past exists in the present. In addition, because the concept of activity timespace highlights the teleological character of human action, the book contains an extensive defense of the teleological character of such allegedly ateleological forms of activity as emotional and ceremonial actions. Since, finally, the book's ideas about timespace and activity as an indeterminate event derive from an interpretation of Heidegger, the work furthers understanding of the relevance of his thought for social and historical theory.
The book combines textual interpretation, theoretical argumentation, and empirical substantiation. Many of its empirical examples are taken from the Blue Grass Horse Country around Lexington, Kentucky, where the author resides.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Chapter 1. The Timespace of Human Activity
Chapter 3 Objective Time and Space
Chapter 4 Social Space-time
Chapter 5 The Timespace of Human Activity
Chapter 6 On the Intellectual Contexts of Activity Timespace
Chapter 7 The Social Character of Activity Timespace
Part 8 Chapter 2. Activity Timespace and Social Life
Chapter 9 Human Coexistence
Chapter 10 The Coordination of Actions
Chapter 11 Social Organizations, Events, and Systems
Chapter 12 Harvey on Space-Time and Space-Time Compression
Chapter 13 Conflict and Power
Chapter 14 Landscapes
Part 15 Chapter 3. The Dominion of Teleology
Chapter 16 Outline of a Theory of Human Activity
Chapter 17 Emotional Activity
Chapter 18 Ceremony and Ritual
Chapter 19 Sacred Worlds
Part 20 Chapter 4. Activity and History as Indeterminate Temporalspatial Events
Chapter 21 Human Activity as Event
Chapter 22 The Indeterminacy of Activity
Chapter 23 Human Activity as Flowing
Chapter 24 On History and Historicity
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