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The Personal Experience of Time
Bernard S. . Ed(S): Gorman
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Description for The Personal Experience of Time
Paperback. Editor(s): Gorman, Bernard S. Series: NATO ASI Subseries B. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
The fundamental nature of human time experience has concerned artists, poets, philosophers, and scientists throughout the ages. Any consideration of human action requires awareness of its temporal aspects. However, simply to view time in the same units and dimensions as the physicist employs in describing events robs personal time of its "lived" quality. The use of physical time concepts in the description of human events is often artificial and misleading. It fails to account for the facts that human time estimates rarely match clock and calendar time; that societies and individuals demonstrate vast differences in their constructions and uses of ... Read more
The fundamental nature of human time experience has concerned artists, poets, philosophers, and scientists throughout the ages. Any consideration of human action requires awareness of its temporal aspects. However, simply to view time in the same units and dimensions as the physicist employs in describing events robs personal time of its "lived" quality. The use of physical time concepts in the description of human events is often artificial and misleading. It fails to account for the facts that human time estimates rarely match clock and calendar time; that societies and individuals demonstrate vast differences in their constructions and uses of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
NATO ASI Subseries B
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461341659
SKU
V9781461341659
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Ref
99-15
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