William Sewell (deutsche Version) Sewell emphasizes that scientific theories and the world views founded on them are decisively shaped by the temporalities that underlie them….

Norbert Elias (deutsche Version) According to Norbert Elias, our modern concept of time is the result of a long, beginningless learning process in which each…

Manfred Eigen (deutsche Version) For Manfred Eigen, time is a physical fact that is tied to physical processes and unfolds in different ways in different…

Marcel Merleau-Ponty (deutsche Version) Time represents a fundamental concept for the ontological foundation of Marcel Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Although he does not present an explicit theory…

Michel Foucault (deutsche Version) Michel Foucault breaks with traditional ideas according to which history runs linearly, continuously and cumulatively, following an unchanging, endless, transcendental law…