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The Study of Time IV

Papers from the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Alpbach—Austria

  • J. T. Fraser
  • Nathanial Lawrence
  • David Park
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. My Time Is Your Time

    1. My Time Is Your Time
      N. Lawrence
      Pages 1-12

  3. Issues of Beginnings and Endings

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. Beginnings of Organic Evolution
      A. G. Cairns-Smith
      Pages 15-33
    3. The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought
      D. Corish
      Pages 34-45
    4. Death, Literature, and Its Consolations
      G. H. Ford
      Pages 46-58
    5. On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam
      S. L. Goldman
      Pages 59-72
    6. A Structuralist View of Biological Origins
      B. C. Goodwin
      Pages 73-89
    7. The Origins of Time
      M. Heller
      Pages 90-93
    8. The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our sense of an Ending in Tragedy
      S. L. Macey
      Pages 94-102
    9. The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology
      D. Park
      Pages 103-118
    10. Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata
      M. Pilarcik
      Pages 119-135
    11. Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity
      C. M. Sherover
      Pages 136-146
    12. Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of “Women in Love”
      M. Torgovnick
      Pages 147-158

  4. Issues of Music and Time

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 159-159
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    2. Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music
      J. Becker
      Pages 161-172
    3. The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity
      L. Bielawski
      Pages 173-179
    4. On Musical Continuity
      D. Epstein
      Pages 180-197
    5. The Creation of Audible Time
      L. Rowell
      Pages 198-210

  5. Miscellaneous Contributions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 211-211
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    2. The Branch System Hypothesis: A Critique
      S. C. Schwarze
      Pages 213-222
    3. Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
      M. Spangler
      Pages 223-233
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 234-287
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About this book

Keywords

Java Statistica Time Zeit evolution music society

Editors and affiliations

  • J. T. Fraser
    • 1
  • Nathanial Lawrence
    • 2
  • David Park
    • 3
  1. 1.International society for the Study of timeWestportUSA
  2. 2.Department of PhilosophyWilliams CollegeWilliamstownUSA
  3. 3.Department of Physics and AstronomyWilliams CollegeWilliamstownUSA

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