Time exposure: the personal experience of time in secular societies
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Main Author: Fenn, Richard K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2001
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index
This work looks at the way in which we experience time in secular societies. In Fenn's view, secularization is virtually synonymous with individualism. Although it is often the Church that decries modern individualism, he says, it is in fact the Church that created it, by its demystification of the universe, its insistence on individual self-discipline, and its intensification of individual responsibility for the use of time. The result was a profound change in the way in which time is experienced by the individual. Fenn offers an exploration of our modern experience of time, as expressed in such phrases as "wasting time" and "making up for lost time". He is particularly interested in the idea and experience of waiting, which he believes to be a defining characteristic of modern life
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 166 pages)
ISBN:0195139534
1280481234
1423745647
9780195139532
9781280481239
9781423745648

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