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- Time and Freedom
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
summary
Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton's is the first major work of its kind since Bergson's Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton's "mystery of the future," in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Preface to the American Edition
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- Part 1. The Tree of Possibilities
- 3. The Wheel of Time (Schopenhauer)
- pp. 73-86
- Part 2. The Plasticity of Time
- 4. The Time of Decision (Schelling)
- pp. 89-120
- 5. The Moment (Kierkegaard)
- pp. 121-140
- 6. Decision for Temporality (Heidegger)
- pp. 141-186
- Part 3. The Mystery of the Future
- 7. Time as the Source of Freedom (Bergson)
- pp. 189-208
- 8. Freedom at the Root of Time (Sartre)
- pp. 209-230
- 9. The Fecundity of Time (Levinas)
- pp. 231-250
- Conclusion
- pp. 251-258
- Bibliography
- pp. 271-280
- About the Author
- p. 283
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810168138
Related ISBN(s)
9780810130159, 9780810130166
MARC Record
OCLC
893600247
Pages
299
Launched on MUSE
2014-10-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014