Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected

Raji C. Steineck, Dr. phil. (1999) in philosophy, Bonn University, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. His main interest is in the philosophy of culture and symbolic forms. He has published extensively on Japanese philosophy and intellectual history, and edited, with Jo Alyson Parker and Paul A. Harris, Time: Limits and Constraints (Brill, 2010). Claudia Clausius, M.Litt Oxon, Ph D. Toronto, is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Modern Languages at King’s University College/Western University Canada. Her main research area is the intersection between modern art and drama. Among her publications, she has written on Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon, Paul Klee and modernism, Harold Pinter, and Wole Soyinka.

Obituary
Introduction
Acknowledgements

Section I: "Origins Explained"
J. T. Fraser: Founder's lecture
Paul Harris: President's Address
Walter Schweidler: On the Social Origin of Time in Language
Rosemary Huisman: The Origins of Language and Narrative Temporalities

Section II: "From Future to Origin: Temporal Inversions and Asymmetries"
Sabine Gross: Endings as Origins
Carol Fischer: The Time Plays of J. B. Priestley
Michael Crawford: Big Science: Marching Forward to the Past
Friedel Weinert: The Past-Future Asymmetry

Section III: "Futures opened, Futures closed"
Steven Ostovich: The Human Temporal Condition Between Memory and Hope
Patricia Engle: Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat"
Marcus Bullock: Tales of Time and Terror
Masae Yuasa: Futures of August 6th 1945: a case of 'peaceful utilization' of nuclear energy in Japan
Karmen MacKendrick: Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future

Index
List of Contributors