The Ethics of Time - A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change

The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as Augustine''s Confessions and Sophocles''s Oedipus Rex , among others. The Ethics of Time takes seriously phenomenology''s claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the "ethical" self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages knowledgeably and deftly with subjects across literature, theology and the arts and will be of interest to scholars throughout these disciplines.>

About the author

John Panteleimon Manoussakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, USA and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. John Panteleimon Manoussakis, John Manoussakis, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, John Panteleimon Manoussakis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781474299169
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9916-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism