Time and Society

von Warren D. Tenhouten

275 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first general theory of time-consciousness and social experience ever developedTime-consciousness-long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought-is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality-emphasizing equality and community-leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality-based on inequality and agency-leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791464335
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.04.2005
• Größe: 236 x 161 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press