tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331917990627226586.post1778578761232479628..comments2023-08-29T04:35:15.852-07:00Comments on The Trent Philosophy Blog: Space and PhilosophyNeil Turnbullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07757980706607642699noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331917990627226586.post-1599946594493314352010-03-09T13:21:33.996-08:002010-03-09T13:21:33.996-08:00Habermas (see Habermas, 1990) tries to view the ph...Habermas (see Habermas, 1990) tries to view the philosophical discourse of modernity as giving expression to a new form of historical ‘time consciousness’, and modernity has been defined form Baudelaire to Benjamin in terms of the changes in the day-to-day phenomenology of time . The modern experience of time is deemed to possess fundamentally different qualities in comparison to pre-modern varieties of temporal experience. Pre-modern societies, being largely based upon an agricultural mode of production, experienced time as cyclical - the repetitions of a natural order, so-called ‘Women’s time, being reflected in a non-linear, iterative, sense of time. Modern societies by contrast, being more future-oriented, tend to view time in a linear and progressive manner; the present is simply the ‘null point’ between a future that is not yet and a past that is irretrievably lost. Modernity then is a society of planners attempting to control the future and historians attempting to rescue the past. However, as Foucault as argued, this philosophical and cultural obsession with time was particular to the nineteenth century. If we define the philosophical discourse of modernity in its widest sense as being co-extensive with ‘modern philosophy’, beginning with the Enlightenment philosophes and continuing well into the Twentieth century, then it can clearly be shown that philosophy has been more concerned with the philosophical significance of space than time.<br /><br />Neil TurnbullNeil Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757980706607642699noreply@blogger.com