Open AccessPrzygodny czas Eliasa
Author(s) -
Dominika Michalak
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2015.59.1.3
Subject(s) - epistemology , existentialism , philosophy , key (lock) , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , computer science , computer security
The article aims at a reconstruction of Norbert Elias’s theory of time, as presented in Time: An Essay. The author stresses the importance of the ontological and existential questions posed by Elias or implied by his concept. Referring to Elias’s earlier works and to critical interpretations, the author attempts to answer three questions: According to Elias, what is time in social practice? What are Elias’s key ontological arguments about time? What does Elias’s theory of time imply about the human condition?