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02401aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 22A4EF3AF5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 161209t20172017enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781911116219 020 $a 1911116215 035 $a (OCoLC)965761432 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UAB $d SILO 050 4 $a BD638 $b .T285 2017 082 04 $a 115 $2 23 100 1 $a Tallis, Raymond, $e author. 245 10 $a Of time and lamentation : $b reflections on transience / $c Raymond Tallis. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Newcastle upon Tyne : $b Agenda Publishing, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 726 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original, and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons, and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation, and grief. Thinking about it is to meditate on our own mortality. Yet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is lived. The story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory, and Lorentz coordinates, Tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces, and the long narratives of our human journey. Our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physics.The first part of the book, "Killing Time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical science. Part 2, "Human Time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternity. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-709) and index. 650 0 $a Time $x Philosophy. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214023644.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=22A4EF3AF5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search