Time and freedom / Christophe Bouton ; translated from the French by Christopher Macann

Author:: Bouton, Christophe
Uniform Title:: Temps et liberte. English
Published:: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
Physical Description:: xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Macann, Christopher E.

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Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Contents:

The tree of possibilities -- Whether the future is necessary (Leibniz) -- Three Kantian solutions to the problem of predeterminism -- The wheel of time (Schopenhauer) -- The plasticity of time -- The time of decision (Schelling) -- The moment (Kierkegaard) -- Decision for temporality (Heidegger) -- The mystery of the future -- Time as the source of freedom (Bergson) -- Freedom at the root of time (Sartre) -- The fecundity of time (Levinas).

Subject(s):

Time—Philosophy
Liberty

ISBN:

9780810130166 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810130165 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810130159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810130157 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Note:

"Originally published by Presses Universitaires de Toulouse in 2007 as Temps et liberte."--Title page verso.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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