Time's Urgency (The Study of Time)

Montemayor, Carlos (EDT)/ Daniel, Robert (EDT)

Brill（2019/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 319 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004408234

Full Description

The Study of Time XVI: Time's Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST's previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines.



This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times.



Contributors are Julian Barbour, Dennis Costa, Kerstin Cuhls, Ileana da Silva, Margaret K. Devinney, Sonia Front, Peter A. Hancock, Paul Harris, Rose Harris-Birtill, David Mitchell, Carlos Montemayor, Jo Alyson Parker, Katie Paterson, Walter Schweidler, Raji C. Steineck, Daniela Tan, Frederick Turner, Thomas P. Weissert, Marc Wolterbeek, and Barry Wood.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Carlos Montemayor

Introductory Essays

1 A New Theory of Time's Arrows

 Julian Barbour

2 'Looking Down Time's Telescope at Myself': Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell's Fictional Worlds (Winner of the 2016 New Scholar's Prize)

 Rose Harris-Birtill

part 1: Dialogues

3 Archivists of the Future

 Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell

4 Presidential Address: Should We Give Up "Time"?

 Raji C. Steineck

5 Time as an Open Concept: A Response to Raji Steineck

 Carlos Montemayor

6 Zero-Time Theory

 Peter A. Hancock

7 Deconstructing the Zero Time Theory

 Frederick Turner

8 Time's up: Clarifying Misunderstandings of Zero-Time Theory

 Peter A. Hancock

part 2: Urgency and Time Scales

9 Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for Closure

 Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert

10 Petrotemporality at Siccar Point: James Hutton's Deep Time Narrative

 Barry Wood

11 Time's Urgency Ritualized: The Centrality and Authority of Mayan Calendars

 Margaret K. Devinney

12 Telling Time: Literary Rituals and Trauma

 Daniela Tan

13 Sequence and Duration in Graphic Novels

 Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek

14 "There's More Than One of Everything": Time Complexity in Fringe

 Sonia Front

15 Foresight and Urgency: The Discrepancy between Long-Term Thinking and Short-Term Decision-Making

 Kerstin Cuhls

16 "More Than Watchmen": Dante on Urgency in Ritual

 Dennis Costa

17 Time's Redeeming Urgency

 Walter Schweidler

Index