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This book is the only contemporary, systematic study of the relationship of time and conscious experience. Peter K. Mclnerney examines three tightly interconnected issues: how we are able to be conscious of time and temporal entities, whether time exists independently of conscious experience, and whether the conscious experiencer exists in time in the same way that ordinary natural objects are thought to exist in time. Insight is drawn from the views of major phenomenological and existential thinkers on these issues.

Building on a detailed explication and critique of the views of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, Mclnerney develops and defends his own positions. He argues that a revised version of Husserl’s three-feature theory of time-consciousness provides the best explanation of our awareness of temporal features, but that an independently real time is necessary to explain our experience of temporal passage. He also shows that human existence has some special temporal features in addition to those it shares with other entities. Time-consciousness, the conscious exercise of powers, and personal identity through time require that any temporal part of human existence be defined by and "reach across" to earlier and later parts.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-2
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 3-10
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  1. Part I: The Issues
  2. pp. 11-12
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  1. 1. Time-Consciousness and the Ontology of Time
  2. pp. 13-33
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  1. 2. The Denial of Temporal Realism
  2. pp. 34-47
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  1. 3. The Question of a Special Temporality
  2. pp. 48-58
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  1. Part II: Phenomenological Positions
  2. pp. 59-62
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  1. 4. Kant's Theory of Time-Consciousness and Time
  2. pp. 63-93
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  1. 5. HusserI's Theory of Time-Consciousness and Time
  2. pp. 94-117
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  1. 6. Heidegger's Theory of Time-Consciousness and Temporality
  2. pp. 118-148
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  1. 7. Sartre's Theory of Time-Consciousness and Time
  2. pp. 149-174
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  1. Part III: The Temporality of Experience
  2. pp. 175-176
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  1. 8. Time-Consciousness
  2. pp. 177-205
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  1. 9. Temporal Realism
  2. pp. 206-226
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  1. 10. The Special Temporality of Human Being
  2. pp. 236-254
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  1. Appendix
  2. pp. 255-260
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 261-278
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 279-283
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