Description
Book SynopsisArticulates a phenomenology of time that is as inspired by the philosophical writings of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl as it is by the psychiatric descriptions of Eugen Bleuler. First published in French in 1933, this edition of this classic work of phenomenological psychiatry and psychopathology includes a new foreword by Dan Zahavi.
Trade ReviewLived Time is without doubt one of the essential texts for anyone interested in the philosophy and psychopathology of time. An extraordinarily thoughtful and elegant writer in the Bergsonian tradition, Minkowski opens up philosophy to the extremes of temporal experience, those of the delusional, the schizophrenic, the child and the aged. A marvelous and captivating book!" - Elizabeth Grosz, author of
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power"Together with Karl Jaspers and Ludwig Binswanger, Minkowski . . . counts as one of the early founders of and principal advocates for phenomenological psychiatry. . . . His work is firmly anchored in clinical observations, and his careful and detailed vignettes are among the treasures of the book." - Dan Zahavi, from the foreword
"This is a smooth and sensitive translation of one of the French classics in psychology and phenomenology, which appeared first in 1933. . . . Minkowski's descriptions manifest many interesting details and aspects of lived time." - Robert Sokolowski
