Julie wrote:
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> Just a short question...
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> What fundamental concepts of time do Deleuze and Kierkegaard present
> to us and how do they differ from other understandings?
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> Julie G
Here are two papers that might offer some clues.
Kierkegaard wrote about the timelessness of God in relation to the
individual, who exists in existential time.
Penelope Palmer describes Kierkegaard's views in her review of Mark C
Texzon's "Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship. A Study of Time and the
Self." (Philosophical Quarterly, Apr. 1977, p177-180):
"SK's fundamental category is that of the individual; it is hardly
surprising that Taylor should choose to elucidate-and very
competently--the theme of the self in the pseudonymous works. What is
more unusual, and extremely welcome, is his attempt to bring to light an
intimately related theme of time. In The Concept of Dread SK argued,
with maddening brevity, that the traditional concept of time was
inappropriate to human existence. Taylor, aided by Aristotle (Phye. IV),
engages in an honest attempt to understand in detail what SK was
criticizing. Briefly, SK questioned that view of time which derives from
our understanding of space; consists in 'visualizing time instead of
thinking it' (op. cit.); upholds an indissoluble connection between time
and the motion of bodies; sees time as a line composed of an infinite
series of points (the successive 'present' points dividing past from
future). SK calls the 'now' of this 'spatialized time' an 'atomistic
abstraction'-from past and future. He doubts whether one can even speak
of tenses of time from within the standpoint of spatialized time. In
Taylor's words: 'If only the present is, and the past and future are
consistently excluded from the present, it is difficult to see how one
could become aware of the past and of the future.' SK does not think an
individual can stand outside the time continuum in which he exists, and
thus become aware of time as tensed. A concept of 'life-time' related to
individuals' lives rather than to objects in space, is, Taylor claims,
inherent in SK's pseudonymous works, and closely bound up with his view
of the structure and possible development of the self..."
Nathan Widder describes Deleuze's conception of time here:
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/politics/research/readingroom/WidderTime&Discontinuity.pdf
"Against the common or ordinary conception of time as the number or
measure of movement, this work follows Deleuze and others in treating
time as the unchanging form of what changes or moves. Following this
route, time becomes associated with a transcendental structure or
synthesis of differences, which Deleuze calls a 'disjunctive synthesis'
or a synthesis of differences through their difference."
Paul
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