| An Essay on Time: Volume 9 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Elias, Norbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904558410 ISBN-13: 9781904558415 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 304.237 |
| LCCN: 2007405522 |
| Series: Collected Works of Norbert Elias |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 187 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |