Time and Measure

This volume of essays explores ideas of time and the measure of time, looking at how these vary and interact across disciplines, from J. T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time to phenomenology, considering Thoreau alongside Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, to the influence of a garden on Leibniz, to chronobiology and a consideration of postmodern, probabilistic measures of time. We look as well at human measures of time in Kazakh musical storytelling and medieval Japanese legend and turn finally to prose-poetry, video installation, and moving image art, along with considerations of Graham Swift and Ted Chiang’s modern novelistic explorations of time’s measure.

Contributors are Raji Steineck, Lanei Rodemeyer, Walter Schweidler, Paul Harris, Fredrick Turner, Arkadiusz Misztal, Kerstin Cuhls, Ritsuko Matsumura, Daniela Tan, Xiaoshi Wie, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Sanyogita Singh, Jo Alyson Parker, Karen Heald and Emily DiCarlo.

Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum at Boston University. She teaches widely in Greek and Latin literature and the Classical tradition and has published on Hesiod and Virgil, Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy, and the modernist reception of Classics, including Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey (2022).

Arkadiusz Misztal is Professor in American Studies at Gdańsk University. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time in Variance (2021), co-edited with Paul Harris and Jo Alyson Parker.

Walter Schweidler has held chairs of philosophy at the universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Eichstätt. He has published on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and time. Recent publications include Wiedergeburt and The Other Time. Philosophical Approaches to the Past that has Never been Present (2023).