'What is time?' Well-known philosopher and intellectual historian, Eva Brann mounts an inquiry into a subject universally agreed to be among the most familiar and the most strange of human experiences. Brann approaches questions of time through the study of ten famous texts by such thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, showing how they bring to light the perennial issues regarding time. She also offers her independent reflections. Examining the three phases of time, past, present, and future, she argues that neither external time nor the time of the human past is real: the one is a comparison of motions and the other a projection of memory. She concludes that true time is internal and has its origin in the imaginative structure of memory and expectation. Throughout her rich and original study, Brann never fudges the central fact that time is a mystery.
- ISBN10 0847692930
- ISBN13 9780847692934
- Publish Date 25 June 2001 (first published 15 September 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English