Time and Society
About this book
The first general theory of time-consciousness and social experience ever developed
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. 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.
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Table of contents
- Time and Society
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Case Study of the Australian Aborigines
- 3. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness
- 4. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness, Continued
- 5. Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness
- 6. Patterned-Cyclical and Ordinary-Linear Time and the Two Sides of the Brain
- 7. Immediate-Participatory and Episodic-Futural Time and the Brain
- 8. The Two and the Four, and Possibly More: Social Duality and the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality
- 9. Natural and Rational Experiences of Time
- 10. Communal Sharing and Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness
- 11. Equality Matching and Immediate- Participatory Time Consciousness
- 12. Authority Ranking and Episodic-Futural Time Consciousness
- 13. Market Pricing and Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness
- 14. Text and Temporality
- 15. An Empirical Test of the Theory
- 16. Discussion
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index