Author | : John Panteleimon Manoussakis |
File Size | : 51,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 15 December 2016 |
ISBN | : 9781474299176 |
Pages | : 232 pages |
The Ethics of Time by John Panteleimon Manoussakis Book PDF Summary
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.