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Zusatztext This timely collection brings to bear a welcome existential and hermeneutical approach to the contemporary issues of the philosophy of culture and history. Often rooted in personal experience, as good philosophy always is, its rich contributions shed new light on our ethical experience of time and mortality in this uncertain 21st century. Informationen zum Autor Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA. Klappentext This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history. By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some of the disciplinary tensions between analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory, and normative ethics. The ethical and existential character of temporality reveals itself within a collection that resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school. The book's distinctive cross-cultural approach ensures a wide range of perspectives with contributions on life and death in Japanese philosophy, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, non-traditional temporalities and philosophical anthropology, as well as global approaches to ethics. These new directions of study highlight the importance of the ethical in the temporal, inviting further points of departure in this burgeoning field. Vorwort Interdisciplinary volume that brings philosophical ethics into conversation with the philosophy of history. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history. By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some of the disciplinary tensions between analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory, and normative ethics. The ethical and existential character of temporality reveals itself within a collection that resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school. The book's distinctive cross-cultural approach ensures a wide range of perspectives with contributions on life and death in Japanese philosophy, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, non-traditional temporalities and philosophical anthropology, as well as global approaches to ethics. These new directions of study highlight the importance of the ethical in the temporal, inviting further points of departure in this burgeoning field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTemporal Humanity: Involvement with Ethics and Time Across Cultures, Natan Elgabsi and Bennett Gilbert I. History as Ethics 1. Past Deeds and the On-going Work of History, Réal Fillion 2. The Time of Ghosts and the Ghosts of Time, Ethan Kleinberg 3. Gifts from the Dead: Heritage and the Ligatures of History, Hans Ruin 4. Multilayered Temporalities Underlying Transitional Justice: Rethinking Resentment and Melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin, Rafael Pérez Baquero II. Agency, Relativity, and Affect 5. The Relativism of Historical Distance and the Contextual Constitution of Agency, Nora Hämäläinen 6. Heroism, Self-determination, and Magnanimity: Hegel and Brandom on Self-conscious Agency, Chiel van den Akker 7. Farness and Immemorial Time: An Ontology of Vestiges, Roberto Wu
