The Study of Time III

09.12.1978

Englisch

9780387903118

Springer US

Nein

727

Gebundene Ausgabe

Proceedings of the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Alpbach—Austria

Volume, eXist, memory, consciousness, Zeit, object, Area, language, topology, organization, society, Manifold, women, Time, boundary element method

PGC - Theoretische und mathematische Astronomie PB - Mathematik

I. Prolegomena.- Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Study of Time.- Levels of Language in Discourse about Time.- II. Physics.- The Third Storm of the Twentieth Century: The Einstein Paradox.- Space-Time Singularities in Cosmology and Black Hole Evaporation.- Beneath Time: Explorations in Quantum Topology.- Thermodynamics, Cosmology, and the Physical Constants.- On Two Fundamental Laws of Nature and the Role of Time in Time-Space Manifold.- The Theory of Space-like Time.- III. Living Clocks.- Biological Clocks and Their Synchronizers.- The Living Clocks of Marine Organisms.- The Measurement of Biological and Social Changes.- IV. Subjective Time.- Time, Memory, and Affect: Experimental Studies of the Subjective Past.- Future Time Perspective and Ego Strength.- V. Past, Present, and Future.- The Objectivity, or Otherwise, of the Present.- Ideas of Beginnings and Endings in Cosmology.- The Past and the Future.- The Boundaries of the Notion of Time.- VI. Society.- Temporal Inventories and Time Structuring in Large Organizations.- The Individual and Society.- City Rhythms.- The Study of Time in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union.- VII. Literature and the Arts.- Fiction: The Language of Time — Thomas Mann and James Joyce.- The Eternal Moment: D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love.- The Changing Iconography of Father Time.- Time in the Musical Consciousness of Old High Civilizations — East and West.- Poiesis: Time and Artistic Discourse.- VIII. Christianity Hinduism, Mithraism.- Time, Space, and Freewill: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence.- The Concept of Time in the Mithraic Mysteries.- Time and Sacrifice — The Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity.

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