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Book SynopsisThis work represents a guided tour to the interdisciplinary, integrated study of time. Through twenty-two connected essays, selected from the author's extensive writings, Time and Time Again advances new insights into understanding the nature of time seen through philosophy, the arts and letters, the sciences of matter, life, mind and society. Traditionally, attitudes to future, past, and present remained distinct for different cultures. But upon the globalizing earth, all cultural regions are now in instant by instant communication. There is a consequent turmoil about individual and collective identities and about value judgments, in all of which attitudes to time play crucial roles. The book explores this turmoil and, through its references, it also serves as a guide to the broadly spread literature about time.
Trade Review'"Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe" deserves to be regarded as a canonical work for humankind's journey into the 21st century. Like Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game master, Julius Thomas Fraser plays with the Study of Time with intellectual rigor and lyrical beauty. ' (B. Caithness)
Table of ContentsThe Whir and the Bell 1. The change ringing cosmos COMPLEXITY AND ITS MEASURE 2 From timelessness to time OUT OF PLATO’S CAVE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TIME 3. Reality as examined appearances THE EXTENDED UMWELT PRINCIPLE 4. What kind of a universe to expect MATHEMATICS AND TIME 5. The beginning or origin of time THE SECULAR MYSTERY OF THE FIRST DAY 6. Contraining chaos FROM CHAOS TO CONFLICT 7. Those metaphysical devices CLOCKWORKS BEYOND THEMSELVES 8. How to use a clock SPACE-TIME IN THE STUDY OF TIME 9. Coordinated clock shops TIME AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 10. From puppy love to faithful love TEMPORAL LEVELS: A FUNDAMENTAL SYNTHESIS 11. Logos at the edge of the cosmos TEMPORAL LEVELS AND REALITY TESTING 12. Unbounding society TIME, INFINITY, AND THE WORLD IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT 13. That awesome gift HUMAN FREEDOM 14. Opiates that civilize TIME FELT, TIME UNDERSTOOD 15. How to perpetuate conflicts CHANGE, PERMANENCE, AND HUMAN VALUES 16. The true TRUTH AS A RECOGNITION OF PERMANENCE 17. Music do I hear? HOMER, BORGES, AND THE PIED PIPER. 18 A different wonder THE PROBLEMS OF EXPORTING FAUST 19. Being a one-and-only TIME, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NASCENT IDENTITY OF MANKIND 20. Turmoil at the anthill threshold HAMLET’S CASTLE IN CYBERSPACE 21. Whose past is our prologue? REFLECTIONS UPON AN EVOLVING MIRROR 22 Expanding the universe
