Time and Trace; Multidisciplinary Investigations of Temporality

Time holds an enduring fascination for humans. Time and Trace investigates the human experience and awareness of time and time’s impact on a wide range of cultural, psychological, and artistic phenomena, from reproductive politics and temporal logic to music and theater, from law to sustainability, from memory to the Vikings. The volume presents selected essays from the 15th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time from the arts (literature, music, theater), history, law, philosophy, science (psychology, biology), and mathematics. Taken together, they pursue the trace of time into the past and future, tracing temporal processes and exploring the traces left by time in individual experience as well as culture and society.

Contributors are: Michael Crawford, Orit Hilewicz, Rosemary Huisman, John S. Kafka, Erica W. Magnus, Arkadiusz Misztal, Carlos Montemayor, Stephanie Nelson, Peter Øhrstrøm, Jo Alyson Parker, Thomas Ploug, Helen Sills, Lasse C. A. Sonne, Raji C. Steineck, and Frederick Turner.

Sabine Gross is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published widely on aesthetics, narratology, literature (18th century through contemporary), the reading process, image-text relations, theatre, time, and perception.

Steve Ostovich, Ph.D. (1986), Marquette University, is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. He publishes in the areas of political theology, German studies, critical theory, and educational reform.