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 at College of the Holy Cross, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, Australia, and the recipient of a Templeton Foundation grant.

Product details

• Authors: John Panteleimon Manoussakis, John Panteleimon (College of the Holy Manoussakis, John Panteleimon (College of the Holy Cross Manoussakis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781350101814
• ISBN: 978-1-350-10181-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continen; Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works