Title: Time, continuity, and indeterminacy : a pragmatic engagement with contemporary perspectives /
Authors: Rosenthal, Sandra B.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Time.
Abstract: "Focusing on the issue of temporality, this book explores the assumptions guiding the frameworks of philosophers who have shaped the contours of the contemporary philosophical landscape, including Whitehead, Weiss, Derrida, McTaggart, and Heidegger. In the process, it remaps the terrain, often finding similarities where differences - some quite radical - are generally accepted, and finding differences where similarities are generally accepted. Rosenthal exposes the pragmatic perspective of temporality involving a radical rethinking of traditional ways of understanding and interrelating the key issues of time - discreteness and continuity; fixity and indeterminacy; potentiality, actuality, and possibility; past, present, and future."--Jacket.
Contents: Whitehead, Weiss, and speculative metaphysics of time -- Derrida, McTaggart, and the demise of time -- Heidegger and temporal existence: the pragmatic contours of an expanded context -- Heidegger, scientific method, and temporality: the pragmatic pathway for deepened dynamics -- Temporality and the A priori: Heidegger and pragmatism -- The temporal self: a restructuring of Mead and a lesson in the need for vigilance -- Temporality and community -- Temporality and interpretive activity: continuity, indeterminacy, and experiential flow -- Temporality and cosmic activity: continuity, indeterminacy, and processive concreteness.