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Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In "Of Time and Lamentation", Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation and grief. Thinking about it is to meditate on our own mortality. Yet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is lived. The story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory and Lorentz coordinates, Tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces and the long narratives of our human journey. Our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physics. For anyone who has puzzled over the nature of becoming, wondered whether time is inseparable from change, whether time is punctuate or continuous, or even whether time, itself, is real, "Of Time and Lamentation" will provoke and entertain. Those, like Tallis himself, who seek to find a place at which the scientific and humanistic views of humanity can be reconciled, will celebrate his placing of human consciousness at the heart of time, and his showing that we are more than cogs in the universal clock, forced to collaborate with the very progress that pushes us towards our own midnight . Contents Overture (maily polemic): why time? * Part I: Killing Time * 1. Introduction: Seeing Time 2. Time as The Fourth Dimension 3. Mathematics and the Book of Nature 4. Clocking Time * Part II: Human Time * 5. In Defence of Tense 6. Living Time: Now 7. The Past: Locating the Snows of Yesteryear 8. Concerning Tomorrow (Today) 9. Beyond Time: Temporal Thoughts on Eternity * Part III: Finding Time * 10. (What) Is Time? 11. The Onlooker: Causation and Explicit Time 12. Time and Human Freedom * Epilogues

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Brand: Agenda Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1911116215
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > History & Philosophy
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Release Date: 03 May 2017
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