Time and Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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The first general theory of time-consciousness and social experience ever developedTime-consciousness-long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought-is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality-emphasizing equality and community-leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality-based on inequality and agency-leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-21
Mått161 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor275
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791464335

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PrefaceAcknowledgment1. Introduction2. A Case Study of the Australian Aborigines3. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness4. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness, Continued5. Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness6. Patterned-Cyclical and Ordinary-Linear Time and the Two Sides of the Brain7. Immediate-Participatory and Episodic-Futural Time and the Brain8. The Two and the Four, and Possibly More: Social Duality and the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality9. Natural and Rational Experiences of Time10. Communal Sharing and Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness11. Equality Matching and Immediate-Participatory Time Consciousness12. Authority Ranking and Episodic-Futural Time Consciousness13. Market Pricing and Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness14. Text and Temporality15. An Empirical Test of the Theory16. DiscussionAppendixNotesReferencesName IndexSubject Index