Chronotypes: The Construction of Time - Softcover

Bender, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804719128 ISBN 13: 9780804719124

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention - including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the 'new' time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the 'post-modern turn' now manifest in many areas of intellectual endeavor, especially in the humanities and social sciences. 'Chronotypes' are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Time is not given but (as the subtitle indicates) fabricated in an ongoing process. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. They interact, they change over time, and they have histories, whose construal is itself an act of temporal construction. This book - an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, historians, literary critics, and anthropologists - examines the ways individuals, societies, and cultures make sense of time by constructing it in diverse patterns. Its title intentionally echoes a concept of narrative theory, Mikhail Bakhtin's 'chronotype', because narrative recurs as a chief form within which we build temporality. The topics treated by these essays range from story-telling to cross-cultural communication, from epistemological debates to concepts of historical periodization, from the construction of life stories to the stratification of social time.<

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804719128
• ISBN 13: 9780804719124
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Herausgeber: Bender John, Wellbery David E.
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