The Time of Our Lives: A Critical History of Temporality

by David Couzens Hoy

Book Overview

The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and with human finitude runs through the history of philosophy as an ultimate concern. In this genealogy of the concept of temporality, David Hoy examines the emergence in a post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of the "time of our lives" rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013045
• ISBN13: 9780262013048
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher