Time and Society
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Time and Society
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Time-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. Ten Houten'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, Ten Houten 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.
Book Details
- Author: Warren D. Ten Houten
- Publisher: Suny Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780791483459, 0791483452
- Print ISBN: 9780791464335, 0791464334
- Other ISBNs: 0791464342, 9780791464342
