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"The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from "past/future" and "anticipation/unexpected" to "extinction/adaptation" and "serial/simultaneous." Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time--not space, as the postmoderns had it--is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live."--Publisher's description.

Time. --- Horology. --- Time --- Hours (Time) --- Time measurements --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Psychological aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Zeitwahrnehmung --- Zeit --- Zeitstruktur --- Ewigkeit --- Wahrnehmung --- Zeitempfinden --- Zeiterleben --- Zeiterlebnis --- Zeitgefühl --- Zeiterfahrung --- Zeitbewusstsein

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"In one of the most original books of late antiquity, Philoponus argues for the Christian view that matter can be created by God out of nothing. It needs no prior matter for its creation. At the same time, Philoponus transforms Aristotle's conception of prime matter as an incorporeal 'something - I know not what' that serves as the ultimate subject for receiving extension and qualities. On the contrary, says Philoponus, the ultimate subject is extension. It is three-dimensional extension with its exact dimensions and any qualities unspecified. Moreover, such extension is the defining characteristic of body. Hence, so far from being incorporeal, it is body, and as well as being prime matter, it is form - the form that constitutes body. This uses, but entirely disrupts, Aristotle's conceptual apparatus. Finally, in Aristotle's scheme of categories, this extension is not to be classified under the second category of quantity, but under the first category of substance as a substantial quantity."--Jacket.

Cosmology --- Creation --- Cosmologie --- Création --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Proclus, --- Création --- Christentum. --- Kosmologie. --- Neuplatonismus. --- Rezeption. --- Aristoteles, --- Eternity --- Cosmology. --- Creatio ex nihilo. --- Creation. --- Eternity. --- Ewigkeit. --- Aristoteles. --- Proklos. --- De aeternitate mundi (Proclus). --- Proclus, - 412-485 --- Aristoteles, - 0384-0322 av. J.-C. --- Proclus --- Christendom. --- Metafysica.