The Many Faces of Time

Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. Husserl's groundbreaking investigations of the consciousness of internal time early in the century inaugurated a phenomenological tradition enriched by such figures as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Eugen Fink. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it. Many of the essays explore topics involving the deepest levels of temporal constitution, including the relationship of temporality to the self and to the world; the ways in which temporalizing consciousness and what it temporalizes present themselves; and the roles and nature of present, past, and future. Other essays develop original positions concerning history, tradition, narrative, the time of generations, the coherence of one's life, and the place of time in the visual arts. In every instance, the authors show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces.

1. Hyletic and Kinetic Facticity of the Absolute Flow and World Creation.- 2. Time and Formal Authenticity: Husserl and Heidegger.- 3. There Is More to the Phenomenology of Time than Meets the Eye.- 4. There's No Time Like the Present: How to Mind the Now.- 5. About the Future: What Phenomenology Can Reveal.- 6. Time, History, and Tradition.- 7. Temporality and Historicity: Phenomenology of History Beyond Narratology.- 8. Generative Experience of Time.- 9. Life Is Not Literature.- 10. Times Squared: Historical Time in Sartre and Foucault.- 11. Plastic Time: Time and the Visual Arts.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.