Kairós
In Defence of 'Due Time'
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 19 September 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350431188
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 198x130x16 mm
- Weight 215 g
- Language English 597
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Long description:
Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today's 24/7 culture.
If we were asked to name the social syndrome of our age under capitalism, it would no doubt be "rush". Intentional animals as we are, we experience the meaningless acceleration of time, which devours instants and misses its target just like its opposite, undue hesitation. For Marramao, rush and slowness or rashness and hesitation are two mirror forms of untimeliness: two unsuitable ways of seizing time.
Through engagement with sources including Heidegger, Bergson, Saint Paul the Apostle, Newtonian physics, and postmodern theory, Marramao calls for a change to how we perceive time. Delving into the Greek and Roman concepts of tempus, chronos, and aión, he argues that there should be no opposition between the scientific-objective time and the existential-subjective one. As such, he introduces his own theory of kairós, or "due time", as the notion of fertile and decisive timeliness. A timely decision, Marramao advances, is generated by the productive tension between opposites: a tension created equally by swiftness and caution, promptness and conformity with the action's purpose.
Originally published in 1992, this updated edition of Kairós: In Defence of "Due Time'' includes a new preface speaking to today's social and political climate, as well as an introduction by Marramao himself, in which he reflects on his long engagement with temporality from Power and Secularization up until today.
Table of Contents:
Preface to Updated Edition
Preface to the New English Edition: Reflections on Time in Power and Secularization; Sky and Earth; Minima Temporalia; and Kairós
1. A Ghost Of Space
2. Plato's Cinematography
3. Einstein's Dream
4. The Cosmic Dance of the Mind
5. The Architecture of Time
6. Philosophy: Eros' Interlude
7. Familiar Strangeness
8. The Axis Of Time
9. "Kairós" and "Tempus"
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