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Author:   Associate Professor Jay Lampert (Duquesne University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781350047785

ISBN 10:   1350047783
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction to Concepts – What is the temporal referent of a decision? 1. Sartre – Can a decision be binding on the future? The future without continuity 2. Husserl – Decision-options and temporal overlap 3. Heidegger – The original decision to decide. Continuity without a future 4. Kierkegaard – Decision as promise: Decisionism in religion. Plus: Kant’s moral postulate of hope and Pascal’s wager of infinite time 5. Schmitt – Decisionism in politics: the sovereign moment and its authoritarian follow-up 6. Habermas – Steering procedures and the term limits of a decision 7. Decision-Theory – Economics, seriality, and retrospective effects 8. Branching Futures in Tense Logic; Possible worlds, possible futures, alternative worlds 9. Derrida – Indecision-theory and the future to-come 10. Deleuze – Decision in the future = X Conclusion — Many overlapping real futures Bibliography Index

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Jay Lampert has written a provocative book on the temporality of decisions. He intertwines the book's innovative insight with a masterly and clear treatment of major continental and analytic thinkers as well as with discussions of temporal logic, decision theory, quantum physics, and the Chinese game of Go. Lampert also considers the vital implications of his thesis for ethical responsibility, especially for an age in which fundamentalisms strive to crowd out more judicious and imaginative thought. It's a must read for scholars and theoreticians working on the relation between decision and time and will be of great interest to those concerned more generally with contemporary continental philosophy. -- Fred Evans, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA

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Jay Lampert is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. His previous books include Simultaneity and Delay: A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time (Continuum, 2012) and Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History (Continuum, 2006).

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