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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815177203321

Titolo

Time : limits and constraints / / edited by Jo Alyson Parker, Paul A. Harris, and Christian Steineck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-03937-0

9786613039378

90-04-18637-9

90-04-18575-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

The study of time, , 0170-9704 ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkerJo Alyson <1954->

HarrisPaul (Paul A.)

SteineckChristian

Disciplina

115

Soggetti

Time

Cosmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised and expanded versions of selected papers presented at the 13th conference of the International Society for the Study of Time held at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, July 28-Aug. 3, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / J.A. Parker , P.A. Harris and C. Steineck -- President’s Address: Cosmic Epics And Global Ethics / Paul A. Harris -- Founder’s Address: Constraining Chaos / J. T. Fraser -- Chapter One. Time: Biological, Intentional And Cultural (Founder’s Prize For New Scholars) / Carlos Montemayor -- Chapter Two. The Battle For Time In The Brain / Peter A. Hancock -- Chapter Three. Memory, Anticipation And The (Un)reality Of The Past And Future / Jonathan Tallant -- Chapter Four. Temporal Asymmetry And Relativity / Friedl Weinert -- Chapter Five. Technical Reproduction And The Question Of Material Duration / Heike Klippel -- Chapter Six. Limits On The Duration Of Copyright: Theories And Practice / Tyler T. Ochoa -- Chapter Seven. Waiting As A Temporal Constraint / Florian Klapproth -- Chapter Eight. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas Of Narrative Constraints And Environmental Limits / Jo Alyson Parker -- Chapter Nine. Closure And



\'Colored People’s Time\' / John Streamas -- Chapter Ten. Dramatic Time: Phenomena And Dilemmas / Carol A. Fischer -- Chapter Eleven. Evental Distention: Restless Simultaneity In Steve Reich’s Piano Phase—Towards A Rehabilitation Of The Real / Marc Botha -- Chapter Twelve. Music-Making Time? / Helen Sills -- Chapter Thirteen. Pauline Eschatology: Thinking And Acting In The Time That Remains / Steven T. Ostovich -- Chapter Fourteen. How Death Was Invented And What It Is For / Frederick Turner -- Chapter Fifteen. Prefatory Remarks To Chapter Fifteen: Reflections: Let A Dialogue Begin / J. T. Fraser -- Truth, Time, And The Extended Umwelt Principle: Conceptual Limits And Methodological Constraints / Christian Steineck -- Index / J.A. Parker , P.A. Harris and C. Steineck.

Sommario/riassunto

This thirteenth volume in the  interdisciplinary Study of Time series explores the way in which limits and constraints impact upon our understanding of time.