The Time is Now. Essays on the Philosophy of Becoming

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The time for what? The title of Mihaela Gligor’s edited collection is wonderfully flexible, as anything having to do with time should be. There is something not only boundless about time, but also raw and untamed. In its pure form, time would be too much for us to handle. We would be crushed by the sheer immensity of it, or else we would lose our minds trying to make sense of such unmediated time. Luckily, for the most part we don’t experience time in its pure form. Time comes to us already processed: shaped, engineered, tamed. The volume does fine justice to the notion that we experience time as already shaped by religion, politics, and culture. Whether its contributions cover religious or political figures, philosophers or poets, mystics or physicists, they show – sometimes explicitly, sometimes more discreetly – how difficult it is to deal with time in a pure, unmediated form. The contributors’ cultural, religious, and intellectual rooting inform the way think about time, just as about anything else. Which, far from being a weakness, is something to be recognized and celebrated. (Costică Brădățan, Texas Tech University, U.S.A.)
 

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Taming time
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Time is Now On the Philosophies of Today
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Philosophies of Becoming Mythic Constructions the Buddhas Philosophy and Gandhis Philosophy
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The Cases of SelfTranslation of Samuel Beckett and E M Cioran
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Claudiu MESAROȘ Aristotle on Becoming and Meanings of Time
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Deleuze Derrida and Dogen onTime and Becoming
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Steven SAVITT Chronogeometrical Determinism and the Local Present
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Inspirations from Christian Kenotic Agapeism
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About the authors
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Back Cover
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Costică Brădățan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Re- search Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University, Miami University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University, as well as at several universities in Europe and Asia.

Brădățan is the author and editor of ten books, among which Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2015) and In Praise of Failure (forthcoming with Harvard University Press). His work has been translated into many languages, including Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi. He has also written book reviews, essays, and op-ed pieces for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, Dissent, The New Statesman, and other similar venues. Brădățan serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the founding editor of two book series: “Philosophical Film- makers” (Bloomsbury) and “Philosophy beyond Boundaries” (Columbia University Press).

Personal webpage: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata 

Douglas Allen, Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of Philosophy at the University of Maine, USA, served as President of the international Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is the Editor of the Lexington Books Series of Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. He was the recipient of Fulbright and Smithsonian fellowships to India. He is the author and editor of 16 books and 150 book chapters and scholarly journal articles. His books in the phenomenology of religion include Structure and Creativity in Religion: Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade and New Directions (Mouton Publishers, 1978) and Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (Routledge, 2002). His Gandhi-informed books include The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2008), Mahatma Gandhi (Reaktion Books, 2011), and Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2019). A peace and justice scholar-activist, Doug Allen has been active in the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and many other struggles resisting violence, war, class exploitation, imperialism, racial and gender oppression, and environmental destruction.

For Douglas Allen’s publications, teaching, service, and honors, see his CV posted on his website at umaine.edu/philosophy/ douglas-allen. 

Arleen Ionescu is Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Foreign Languages, Department of English. Her major research and teaching interests are in the fields of Modernist prose and, increasingly, in Critical Theory, Memory Studies, Holocaust Studies and Trauma Studies. She is the recipient of many re- search prizes, the most recent of which is The Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning. She has given guest lectures and participated in numerous international colloquia and work- shops in Bulgaria, China, Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Korea, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Slovenia, The Czech Republic and The United Kingdom. She has published widely on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and other related aspects of modernism, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Samuel Beckett as well as on trauma in reputed academic journals such as James Joyce Quarterly, Memory Studies, Parallax, Partial Answers, Papers on Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual, Scientia Traductionis, Slovo. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. She co- edited five issues of this journal: “Postcommunism: Postcolonialism’s Other” (with Bogdan Ștefănescu and Ioana Galleron, 2012); “Mediocrity” (with Ivan Callus, 2013); “Blanchot’s Spaces” (with Laura Marin and William Large, 2015); “Encounters between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies” (with Anne-Marie Callus, 2018); “Postclassical Narratology: Twenty Years Later” (with Laurent Milesi and Biwu Shang, 2019). Her books include Concordanțe româno-britanice (Editura Universității din Ploiești, 2004), which rep- resents the first attempt to explore the influence of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in Romanian literature; Romanian Joyce: From Hostility to Hospitality (Peter Lang, 2014), which explores Joyce’s reception in Romania from the inter-war period to communism and post-communism, via the Derridian notion of “hospitality”; The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum (Palgrave, 2017) which is an interdisciplinary study of Libeskind’s ‘experiential museum’, across literature, ethics, WW2, revisionism, trauma studies, museology and architecture. She co-edited (with Maria Margaroni) Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) that proposes new ways of “thinking trauma,” foregrounding the possibility of healing. At present, she is working on a book project on the Shanghai Ghetto where she intends to explore historical accounts and narratives on Shanghai’s opening its frontiers in times of anti-Semitic persecution, through the conceptualization of an unconditional politics of hospitality.

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