Dimensions of Time and Social Togetherness

In his Philosophy of the Present, George Herbert Mead urges to "take time seriously." At the opening of the book he declares that "the present implies past and future, and to these we (Mead) deny existence." This leads to the basic proposition that time exists in the present only, and that past and future are hunks of recalled or anticipated space which are imported as "then" into people's "now." It follows that each indiviual has a unique perception of time; this is the first, subjective dimension, which is called by Bergson "inner time" in his Time and Free Will.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Sharron, Avery

• Sociology, Theory and Methods

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8203588

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70986