Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History

Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Temporal Humanity: Involvement with Ethics and Time Across Cultures, Natan Elgabsi and Bennett Gilbert

I. History as Ethics
1. Past Deeds and the On-going Work of History, Réal Fillion
2. The Time of Ghosts and the Ghosts of Time, Ethan Kleinberg
3. Gifts from the Dead: Heritage and the Ligatures of History, Hans Ruin
4. Multilayered Temporalities Underlying Transitional Justice: Rethinking Resentment and Melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin, Rafael Pérez Baquero

II. Agency, Relativity, and Affect
5. The Relativism of Historical Distance and the Contextual Constitution of Agency, Nora Hämäläinen
6. Heroism, Self-determination, and Magnanimity: Hegel and Brandom on Self-conscious Agency, Chiel van den Akker
7. Farness and Immemorial Time: An Ontology of Vestiges, Roberto Wu

III. Mortality and Personal Identity
8. Neither to Be, Nor not to Be: The Interrelation of Life and Death in Tanabe’s Later Philosophy of Death, Takeshi Morisato
9. Arresting Time’s Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union, Megan Fritts
10. Heidegger’s Process Metaphysics of Personhood, Anne Sophie Meincke

IV. Reconsidering Ontology
11. “When the time is right…” In the Maori World, Georgina Tuari Stewart
12. Levinas on Time: The Ethical Import of our Existential Chronological Inconsistency, Benda Hofmeyr
13. Historical Time, Collective Memory, and the Finitude of Historical Understanding, Jeffrey Andrew Barash
14. The Time of History, Jan-Ivar Lindén

V. Concluding Reflections from Existential Anthropology
15. The Death of the Angel: In Search of a Tango of Temporal Humanity, Ruth Behar

Index