Time and Measure

Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum at Boston University. She teaches widely in Greek and Latin literature and the Classical tradition and has published on Hesiod and Virgil, Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy, and the modernist reception of Classics, including Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey (2022).Arkadiusz Misztal is Professor in American Studies at Gdańsk University. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time in Variance (2021), co-edited with Paul Harris and Jo Alyson Parker.Walter Schweidler has held chairs of philosophy at the universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Eichstätt. He has published on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and time. Recent publications include Wiedergeburt and The Other Time. Philosophical Approaches to the Past that has Never been Present (2023).

• IntroductionPart 1 Time’s Past and Future1. Raji Steineck: Toward a Wider Horizon: Restricting the Umwelt Principle2. Lanei Rodemeyer: Temporality in Layers: A Conversation between J.T. Fraser and E. Husserl3. Walter Schweidler: Leibniz and the Genius of Time4. Paul Harris: Measuring and Taking the Measure of a Stone’s Time5. Fred Turner: Turns and Turnings: the Dynamics of LogogenesisPart 2 Ourselves as the Measure of Time6. Arkadiusz Misztal: Pace and Time: Field Notes on the Art of Walking7. Kerstin Cuhls: Taking Chronobiology Seriously8. Ritsuko Matsumura: The Circadian Clock and Circadian Rhythm Measurement9. Daniela Tan: The Body Narrated. Shifting Time Zones in Medieval Legends and Tales10. Xiaoshi Wei: Indexicality of Time: Performing Kazakh Sybyzghy in Historical VisionsPart 3 Time’s Uncertain Measure11. Chloe Garcia Roberts: Temporal Saturation; Whens12. Sanyogita Singh: Once Upon a Time Again and Again: Temporal Non-linearity in Graham Swift’s Waterland13. Jo Alyson Parker: Branching Timelines and Measuring the Unled Life in Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” 14. Karen Heald: The Timekeeper and the Hour Glass: Artist Moving Image and Poetic Nonlinear Aspects of Time15. Emily DiCarlo: Measuring UncertaintyIndex