Capital Times - Tales From the Conquest of Time

Time is money, Benjamin Franklin once said, and in a highly original reading of European philosophy, Eric Alliez shows us how true this adage is. A history of the philosophy of time, and a comparison of ways of conceiving the temporal, this book is nothing less than an attempt to unravel the theoretical frameworks that have given time its shape in Western civilization.

Summary

Time is money, Benjamin Franklin once said, and in a reading of European philosophy, this text shows how true this adage is. A history of philosophy of time, this work attempts to unravel the theoretical frameworks that have given time its shape in Western civilization.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Alliez, Alliez Eric
• Assisted by: Georges van den Abbeele (Translation), Georges Van Den Abbeele (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.1996
• EAN: 9780816622603
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-2260-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Theory Out of Bounds; Theory Out of Bounds (Paperbac; Theory out of bounds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works