Food for Thought
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Mortality
Mortality (deutsche Version) Dying is one of the conditions of human existence: life entails coming into being and passing away…
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The Right Time
The Right Time (deutsche Version) Seizing an opportunity at the right time is an ambivalent practical recommendation because it also…
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Breaks
Breaks in the Flow (deutsche Version) “Nothing is as constant as change.” – (Heraklit) – The commitment to the moment…
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To late
To late (deutsche Version) “There are three points in time: the right one, the missed one, and the premature one.”…
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Wasted Opportunities
Wasted Opportunities (deutsche Version) “We have enough time if we use it correctly.” – (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) – The…
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Missed Moments
Missed Moments (deutsche Version) “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” (attributed to John Lennon) – The…
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View back
The Blurred View Bac (deutsche Version) In his reflections on symbolic revolutions, the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu drew attention to a…
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Multiple Clock Principle
Multiple Clock Principle (deutsche Version) While technically manufactured clocks display time continuously across many scales – from milliseconds to the…
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Questionable what-is-it questions
Questionable what-is-it questions (deutsche Version) We have a great competence in dealing with time. We often forget that this competence…
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One Sun, Many Days
One Sun, Many Days (deutsche Version) Sunrise and daybreak refer to one and the same phenomenon. Yet we speak of…
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Linguistic expression
Time as a Linguistic Expression (deutsche Version) Objective time is a linguistic means that allows for the meaningful structuring of…
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Signifier and Signified
Time as Signifier and Signified (deutsche Version) The distinction between signifier (word) and signified (object) is unproblematic as long as…
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Origin in Not-yet
Originates time perception in the „not yet“? (deutsche Version) Hans-Georg Gadamer points out that every envisaged or anticipated event opens…
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In Contemplation of Death
In Contemplation of Death (deutsche Version) The realization of the finitude of one’s own life shapes human self-understanding in at…
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Iteration
Does the world iterate? (deutsche Version) Drawing on Derrida, one can conceive of a change in the state of the…
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Thinking as Sensuousness
Thinking as a form of sensuousness (deutsche Version) Thinking is merely a particularly refined form of sensuousness – a kind…