An Essay on Time, Τόμος 9University College Dublin Press, 2007 - 172 σελίδες 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. |
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abstraction activities appears Arrow of God aspects Babylonian mathematics become biological calendar capacity character characteristic civilising process clocks cognitive communication concept conceptual symbols connections constraint continuum of changes Descartes developmental devices earlier stage Elias's essay example experience external Ezeulu fact fifth dimension flow function Galileo high level human groups human societies human-made individual person Joseph-François Lafitau kind knowledge language later societies later stage learned level of synthesis living main sequence mathematics means of orientation measure mode moon movements Norbert Elias object observable one's past pattern people's perhaps personality structure philosophers physical Pierre Clastres positions present priest problem regulation relation relationships relatively represented sciences self-restraint sense sequence of changes sequence of events simpler societies social code social development social habitus socially standardised sociology sociology of knowledge specific tabula rasa term logical theory time-concepts time-meters time-regulated time-scale tradition universe words