Time and History
In Syncronized with Nature
Measuring Time in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
a cura di Lorenzo Nigro
Arbor Scientiae Editore, Roma 2025 [ma uscito nel 2026]
pagine 15-24
- Pdf del saggio
- Il volume è leggibile in Open Access sul sito del Progetto di ricerca
- Il libro sul sito dell’editore
Indice
1 Time, Nature, History
2 Cosmic / Physical Time
3 Conventional Time, social Time
4 Psychological Time, somatic Time, genetic Time
5 Anthropological Time
6 Time / Temporality
Abstract
The paper synthetically presents nine forms of time: cosmic, physical, conventional, social, psychological, somatic, genetic, anthropological, and time/temporality. The analysis of these forms helps us understand that the human being is embodied time; the bodymind is the awareness of being time ourselves.
This thesis does not express a conscientialist primacy over temporality but, on the contrary, the constitutive temporality of our being, both individual and historical, which outside of time is literally incomprehensible, unspeakable, nonexistent. That the human is a temporal cluster does not mean that time resolves itself in us but, on the contrary, that we resolve ourselves in time.
Bibliography
-Bergson, H.
1969 La pensée et le mouvant. Essai et conférences [1934], Paris 1969
-Bloch, M.
2005 Apologie pour l’histoire ou Métier d’historien (Cahier des Annales, 3), Paris 2005
-Borges, J.L.
1960 “Nueva Refutación del tiempo”, in J.L. Borges (ed.), Otras inquisiciones, Buenos Aires 1960, pp. 219-242
-Borst, A.
1990 Computus. Zeit und Zahl in der Geschichte Europas, Berlin 1990
-Di Spazio, V.
2006 Le polmoniti di marzo. Il gene emozionale, Bolzano 2006
-Fraser, J.T.
1987 Time. The Familiar Stranger, Massachusetts 1987
-Heidegger, M.
1977 Sein und Zeit [1927] (Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung I, Band 2), Frankfurt am Main 1977.
2004 Der Begriff der Zeit [1924] (Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung III, Band 64), Frankfurt am Main 2004
-Proust, M.
1999 À la recherche du temps perdu, Paris 1999
