Jochen Gimmel (deutsche Version) Jochen Gimmel develops his understanding of time from reflections on leisure, which he does not conceive as „freedom from the constraints…

Humberto Maturana (deutsche Version) Maturana starts from the observation that the meaning of the concept of time depends on the circumstances of its use. According…

Reinhard Koselleck (deutsche Version) The starting point for Koselleck’s conception of historical time is experience and expectation, which he understands as the most general, anthropologically…

Carsten Colpe (deutsche Version) Colpe has presented a stage theory of the historical development toward a concept of time in ancient civilizations converging to our…

Friedrich Kümmel (deutsche Version) At the heart of Kümmel’s considerations is the temporal management of change and transformation, which must be carried out in the…

Dean Buonomano (deutsche Version) Buonomano points to the plurality of uses of the term „time.“ For his purposes, he distinguishes three meanings: natural time (time…

Peter Bieri (deutsche Version) Under the pseudonym Pascal Mercier Peter Bieri presents concepts of time in his 1995 novel „Perlmanns Schweigen.“ Therein is expressed the…

Søren Kierkegaard (deutsche Version) According to Kierkegaard, temporality is a structural mode of existence; it constitutes the horizon of the existential determination of man. For…

Martin Heidegger (deutsche Version) Heidegger is concerned with laying the foundations of ontology, more precisely with a phenomenological determination of “Dasein” from the existence of…