Ebook: The Study of Time IV: Papers from the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Alpbach—Austria

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
My Time Is Your Time....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Beginnings of Organic Evolution....Pages 15-33
The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought....Pages 34-45
Death, Literature, and Its Consolations....Pages 46-58
On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam....Pages 59-72
A Structuralist View of Biological Origins....Pages 73-89
The Origins of Time....Pages 90-93
The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our sense of an Ending in Tragedy....Pages 94-102
The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology....Pages 103-118
Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata....Pages 119-135
Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity....Pages 136-146
Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of “Women in Love”....Pages 147-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music....Pages 161-172
The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity....Pages 173-179
On Musical Continuity....Pages 180-197
The Creation of Audible Time....Pages 198-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
The Branch System Hypothesis: A Critique....Pages 213-222
Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia....Pages 223-233
Back Matter....Pages 234-287

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
My Time Is Your Time....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Beginnings of Organic Evolution....Pages 15-33
The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought....Pages 34-45
Death, Literature, and Its Consolations....Pages 46-58
On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam....Pages 59-72
A Structuralist View of Biological Origins....Pages 73-89
The Origins of Time....Pages 90-93
The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our sense of an Ending in Tragedy....Pages 94-102
The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology....Pages 103-118
Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata....Pages 119-135
Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity....Pages 136-146
Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of “Women in Love”....Pages 147-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music....Pages 161-172
The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity....Pages 173-179
On Musical Continuity....Pages 180-197
The Creation of Audible Time....Pages 198-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
The Branch System Hypothesis: A Critique....Pages 213-222
Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia....Pages 223-233
Back Matter....Pages 234-287
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