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Time and Freedom
Christophe Bouton
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Paperback. "Originally published by Presses Universitaires de Toulouse in 2007 as Temps et liberte."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Macann, Christopher. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
Christophe Bouton’s Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time.
Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy’s reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later) Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton’s is the first major ... Read more
Christophe Bouton’s Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time.
Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy’s reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later) Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton’s is the first major ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130159
SKU
V9780810130159
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About Christophe Bouton
Christophe Bouton is a professor of philosophy at Université Bordeaux Montaigne. His most recent book is Faire l’histoire (2013). Time and Freedom is his first book to be translated into English. Christopher Macann’s most recent translation is of Alain Berthoz and Jean-Luc Petit’s The Physiology and Phenomenology of Action (2008).
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