1, 2, 3 in a hurry
time flies we rush with?
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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 at every moment – meaning that, at any given instant, a part of us fades away while simultaneously being regenerated. If this…
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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 calendar year—biological clocks tick differently. There are many different types, each of which displays time very specifically only at certain scales. Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano…
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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 the one sun that appears again and again in the morning and the countable different days that follow one another. This antagonistic…
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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 is not innate, but is learned with difficulty in the course of socialization. Despite this competence, the question that Augustine asked himself…
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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 requires a decision about a choice with unforeseen consequences. It can pave the way to the hoped-for success. But it can also…
New items with reflections about time …
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Time as Difference
Time in the Distinction Between Presence and Absence (deutsche Version) Time comes into play when, in the course of distinguishing and relating presence and absence, the absent is brought into focus by the present and thus becomes present. Time marks and masks…
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An Older Man
An Older Man (deutsche Version) A son says to his father: „Look over there at that older man …“ He is using a temporal expression to point to a circumstance that can also be understood – or specified – in calendar terms:…
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Why time at all?
Why time at all? (deutsche Version) One can knead bread dough until it reaches the right consistency – a state recognized through instructions and experience. For baking, it remains in the oven until a test – such as tapping the crust –…
New brief descriptions of the time concepts of relevant authors …
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Gimmel (en)
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 of time“, but rather as an original opportunity to experience time as such. The world is not…
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Maturana (en)
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 to him, these „circumstances“ do not represent a world existing independently of human consciousness, but rather relationships…
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Koselleck (en)
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 predetermined, formal cognitive categories (conditions) for the possibility of historical conceptions. These concepts do not stand alone,…
Time in the mirror of literature …
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To Have Time – To Be Time
To Have Time — To Be Time (deutsche Version) Jochen Gimmel, Zeit haben – Zeit sein – Ein Plädoyer für Zeit (2023) – Jochen Gimmel’s monograph appears in a study series on the theory and cultural history of leisure, published by a…
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Ancient chronology
Ancient chronology as reflected in the sources (deutsche Version) Roland Färber, Rita Gautschy (Hg.), Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums – Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen (2020) – It may seem paradoxical at first glance that a book on ancient chronology,…