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This volume of essays explores ideas of time and the measure of time, looking at how these vary and interact across disciplines, from J. T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time to phenomenology, considering Thoreau alongside Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, to the influence of a garden on Leibniz, to chronobiology and a consideration of postmodern, probabilistic measures of time. We look as well at human measures of time in Kazakh musical storytelling and medieval Japanese legend and turn finally to prose-poetry, video installation, and moving image art, along with considerations of Graham Swift and Ted Chiang’s modern novelistic explorations of time’s measure. Contributors are Raji Steineck, Lanei Rodemeyer, Walter Schweidler, Paul Harris, Fredrick Turner, Arkadiusz Misztal, Kerstin Cuhls, Ritsuko Matsumura, Daniela Tan, Xiaoshi Wie, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Sanyogita Singh, Jo Alyson Parker, Karen Heald and Emily DiCarlo.

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Author:   Stephanie Nelson ,  Arkadiusz Misztal ,  Walter Schweidler
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9789004723627

ISBN 10:   9004723625
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   09 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1 Time’s Past and Future 1. Raji Steineck: Toward a Wider Horizon: Restricting the Umwelt Principle 2. Lanei Rodemeyer: Temporality in Layers: A Conversation between J.T. Fraser and E. Husserl 3. Walter Schweidler: Leibniz and the Genius of Time 4. Paul Harris: Measuring and Taking the Measure of a Stone’s Time 5. Fred Turner: Turns and Turnings: the Dynamics of Logogenesis Part 2 Ourselves as the Measure of Time 6. Arkadiusz Misztal: Pace and Time: Field Notes on the Art of Walking 7. Kerstin Cuhls: Taking Chronobiology Seriously 8. Ritsuko Matsumura: The Circadian Clock and Circadian Rhythm Measurement 9. Daniela Tan: The Body Narrated. Shifting Time Zones in Medieval Legends and Tales 10. Xiaoshi Wei: Indexicality of Time: Performing Kazakh Sybyzghy in Historical Visions Part 3 Time’s Uncertain Measure 11. Chloe Garcia Roberts: Temporal Saturation; Whens 12. Sanyogita Singh: Once Upon a Time Again and Again: Temporal Non-linearity in Graham Swift’s Waterland 13. Jo Alyson Parker: Branching Timelines and Measuring the Unled Life in Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” 14. Karen Heald: The Timekeeper and the Hour Glass: Artist Moving Image and Poetic Nonlinear Aspects of Time 15. Emily DiCarlo: Measuring Uncertainty Index

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Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum at Boston University. She teaches widely in Greek and Latin literature and the Classical tradition and has published on Hesiod and Virgil, Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy, and the modernist reception of Classics, including Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey (2022). Arkadiusz Misztal is Professor in American Studies at Gdańsk University. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time in Variance (2021), co-edited with Paul Harris and Jo Alyson Parker. Walter Schweidler has held chairs of philosophy at the universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Eichstätt. He has published on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and time. Recent publications include Wiedergeburt and The Other Time. Philosophical Approaches to the Past that has Never been Present (2023).

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