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• Title: Temporal Foundations in the Construction of History: Two Essays (Report)
• Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 234 KB

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INTRODUCTION The two essays which follow are interrelated parts of a longer study of time. The first essay, "Multiple Nows" sketches a view of the relation of present to past which diverges sharply from that of linear history, with its assumption of a single past-to-present and present-to-past directionality. The view of "Multiple Nows" is of a free floating temporality, in which present and past are generated in infinitely diverse combinations whenever a new now establishes a past for itself, whenever an old now establishes a present for itself. "The History of a House" pursues the same issue as "Multiple Nows" This time we stand before an historical structure, a mediaeval house, and ask what about that object is its "historicity"? The answer is "nothing" The historicity of the house is ascribed to it by the historian/perceiver who is standing before the house.

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