Published by De Gruyter

Chronoi

Zeit, Zeitempfinden, Zeitordnungen / Time, Time Awareness, Time Management

Funded by: Einstein Center Chronoi
Edited by: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Christoph Markschies and Hermann Parzinger

ISSN: 2701-1453

e-ISSN 2701-1461

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Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management　is a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi. The center is dedicated to the investigation of time and time-related subjects such as time awareness, time management, time perception, and temporality from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives.

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Damascius' Philosophy of Time

Pantelis Golitsis

Volume 7 in this series

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The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both reassumed and rejuvenated the rich and long-established Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different perceptions of time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating modern and contemporary theories of time, such as McTaggart’s series and presentism. The greatest merit of his philosophy of time, however, is his deep reflection on what it is for a living being to have its being in becoming – as it happens with us human beings – and how this relates to stillness, temporality and temporalization. Time is interpreted by Damascius not merely as a concomitant of the celestial motions, nor as an abstract entity existing in the human soul, but as a power of ordering, which is active at different levels. Damascius’ time comprises the biological and the historical time but is also the time that pertains to the essence and the activity of heaven, in which there is neither past nor future. The present book explores the richness of Damascius’ thought by going into the fundamental concepts of his philosophy of time: the indivisible now and the present time, the flowing now and the non-flowing now, the flowing time and the whole of time, in which past, present and future coincide. Damascius fully developed his thoughts about time in his treatise On Time, which is lost. The preserved fragments of this treatise are translated and annotated in an Appendix.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111053219
ISBN:: 9783111053219
ISBN:: 9783111053301
ISBN:: 9783111053189
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: History of Research
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Time and Soul

From Aristotle to St. Augustine

Johannes Zachhuber, Einstein Center Chronoi

Volume 6 in this series

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Can time exist independently of consciousness? In antiquity this question was often framed as an enquiry into the relationship of time and soul. Aristotle cautiously suggested that time could not exist without a soul that is counting it. This proposal was controversially debated among his commentators. The present book offers an account of this debate beginning from Aristotle’s own statement of the problem in Book IV of the Physics. Subsequent chapters discuss Aristotle’s Peripatetic followers, Boethus of Sidon and Alexander of Aphrodisias; his Neoplatonic readers, Plotinus and Simplicius; and early Christian authors, Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine. At the centre of the debate stood the relation between the subjective time in the soul and the objective time of the cosmos. Both could be seen as united in the world soul as the seat of subjective time on a cosmic scale. But no solution to the problem was final. No theory gained general acceptance. The book shows the fascinating variety and plurality of ideas about time and soul throughout antiquity. Throughout antiquity, the problem of time and soul remained as intriguing as it proved intractable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692754
ISBN:: 9783110692754
ISBN:: 9783110692723
ISBN:: 9783110692761
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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The End of Time

Constructions of Time in Apocalyptic Imagination

Emmanouela Grypeou, Stefanie Rabe, Einstein Center Chronoi

Volume 5 in this series

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A thematic investigation of constructions of time are an important, yet understudied area in apocalyptic literature. The aim of this collection of articles is to show the diversity of time constructions in Rabbinic and Christian texts about the end of time. The essays in this volume, representing the proceedings of a workshop held in May 2021 at the Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin, are individual studies devoted primarily to little-known texts: rabbinic Midrash on the Song of Songs, the apocryphal apocalypses of Thomas and John, and Christian apocalyptic visions from the post-Islamic period. The volume also offers systematic contributions on political eschatology, on typologies as apocalyptic text tool and the history of research on time in the apocryphal literature. Scholars and students of Jewish and Christian religious history will find in this volume insights to a crucial but so far neglected topic of apocalyptic imagination.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110777871
ISBN:: 9783110777871
ISBN:: 9783110777789
ISBN:: 9783110778007
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Rabbinic Judaism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden

Die Wissenschaften vom Alten Orient und die zeitliche Dimension von Kulturgeschichte

Thomas L. Gertzen, Einstein Center Chronoi

Volume 4 in this series

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In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural sciences called supposed certainties into question. The classical disciplines were assigned a decisive role in this conflict. This volume presents these developments, some of them unexpected.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760200
ISBN:: 9783110760200
ISBN:: 9783110760231
ISBN:: 9783110760125
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Egyptology
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Time for the Ancients

Measurement, Theory, Experience

P. N. Singer, Einstein Center Chronoi

Volume 3 in this series

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The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeological, medical, technological, philosophical, literary – more broadly. The focus is on questions of medical or experiential significance: life cycles, disease cycles, daily regimes for mind and body, clinical assessment, including the vital area of diagnosis through the pulse, technologies of time measurement. But the philosophical background is also examined: questions of the nature and definition of time and its relationship to space and motion. Galen offers original contributions in all these areas, at the same time as shedding important light on both contemporary attitudes and previous discussions.

The book thus offers an accessible and vivid overview of key issues in ancient time perception and awareness, while also offering the first in-depth exploration of the insights that the Galenic texts add to this picture.

Five thematic chapters – Time Measurement, Year and Life Cycles, Biography, Medical Cycles – consider a wide range of evidence and of recent scholarship, while highlighting the contribution of medical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110752397
ISBN:: 9783110752397
ISBN:: 9783110751925
ISBN:: 9783110752496
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Subjektive und objektive Zeit

Aristoteles und die moderne Zeit-Theorie

Wolfgang Detel, Einstein Center Chronoi

Volume 2 in this series

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This essay examines the differentiation between subjective and objective time in Aristotle and in modern theories of time. It aims to show that (i) Aristotle does make this distinction but regards subjective and objective time as compatible, whereas (ii) modern theories of time have sharpened this distinction into a strict duality, but (iii) a sharp division of this kind is theoretically untenable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110709889
ISBN:: 9783110709889
ISBN:: 9783110709926
ISBN:: 9783110709223
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter