Time

[.Kafka]

Can you recommend any 'philosophical' books that approach the concept of time in a literary manner. Kant is not literary. Nietzsche is. If you follow my rift.

Hitherto Beckett's play, 'Krapp's Last Time' has been what I arrive back to.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Nobel Prize winner Henri Bergson specialized in the concept of time.
Two of his best:

http://www.amazon.com/Duration-Simultaneity-Einsteinian-Universe-Philosophy/dp/190308301X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281486778&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Matter-Memory-Henri-Bergson/dp/0942299051/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281486906&sr=1-1

Also Heidegger's book:
http://www.amazon.com/History-Concept-Time-Prolegomena-Phenomenology/dp/0253207177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281486960&sr=1-1-spell

[.Kafka]

I have not heard of Henri Bergson before. I checked the links and his seems a remarkably accessible prose. Thank you.

[Leland Gaunt]

If you follow my rift.
You must have a very dramatic life.

[.Kafka]

You must have a very dramatic life.

I wonder how much a single word in a single phrase can reveal of the hazard of a person's life.

[Leland Gaunt]

I wonder how much a single word in a single phrase can reveal of the hazard of a person's life.
You would be surpr...a lot, it can reveal a lot. Especially, when you leave great, gaping gashes in the earth's surface.

[.Kafka]

You would be surpr...a lot, it can reveal a lot. Especially, when you leave great, gaping gashes in the earth's surface.

Certainly then metaphors must be a novelty to you. The difference in style between Kant and Nietzsche, like the opposition between night and day, is considerable. Extreme oppositions are often referred to, as the common cliche goes, as unbridgeable. Things are unbridgeable because they are too far apart, possibly due to chasms, rifts, fissures, or because of other characteristic incompatibilities. My statement of 'if you follow my rift' was a reference to the symbolic distinction between the two philosophers.

If you are intentionally trying to be snide I would please ask you to take it elsewhere.

[Leland Gaunt]

Certainly then metaphors must be a novelty to you. The difference in style between Kant and Nietzsche, like the opposition between night and day, is considerable. Extreme oppositions are often referred to, as the common cliche goes, as unbridgeable. Things are unbridgeable because they are too far apart, possibly due to chasms, rifts, fissures, or because of other characteristic incompatibilities. My statement of 'if you follow my rift' was a reference to the symbolic distinction between the two philosophers.

If you are intentionally trying to be snide I would please ask you to take it elsewhere.
Lol, that was pretty clever.

[Scheherazade]

Since this thread does little more than acting as a bickering ground, it will now be closed.

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