Isbn: 9798192579268 - life in the fragments of time: memory, dignity, and the struggle for a shared future (5 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the destiny of a nation is shaped not first by geography, economics, or political institutions-but by the way it organises time?Following the ontological foundations established in The Theory of Time's Fragments: Volume I, Life in the Fragments of Time explores the consequences of temporal organisation for human consciousness, ethical life, national identity, historical development, and political legitimacy.The central claim of this volume is both simple and transformative: individuals and nations are not merely historical beings-they are temporal beings. Their identities are formed through patterns of memory, continuity, responsibility, and ethical self-reflection. History is therefore not simply a record of events; it is the organised expression of collective temporal consciousness.Building upon the principles of time-centred ontology, Levent Caglar develops a comprehensive philosophy of human and social existence. Consciousness, dignity, honour, justice, and political legitimacy are examined not as isolated concepts but as successive stages in a single temporal process.The book introduces an original framework in which dignity becomes the intrinsic worth of the person, honour the ethical practice through which dignity is lived, justice the institutional expression of ethical responsibility, and political legitimacy the capacity of a society to organise these principles across time.Rather than treating the nation as merely a political or ethnic construct, the book proposes that nations are temporal communities sustained by shared memory, ethical continuity, and collective responsibility. National consciousness is therefore understood not as an inherited myth but as a dynamic process of historical self-awareness.Drawing upon philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and systems thinking, this volume enters into dialogue with thinkers including Hegel, Spinoza, Marx, Rawls, Sen, Herder, and Bergson while advancing an original theoretical synthesis. Questions of historical memory, democratic development, constitutional legitimacy, restorative justice, and the Ethical Republic are brought together within a unified temporal framework.Throughout the book, the reader is invited to reconsider familiar political concepts from a different perspective. Democracy is not only a constitutional arrangement but a temporal achievement. Justice is not only a legal principle but a mode of organising historical continuity. Freedom is not merely the absence of constraint but the capacity of individuals and societies to become conscious participants in their own temporal development.This volume therefore moves beyond traditional debates between liberalism, nationalism, socialism, and conservatism. Instead, it asks a more fundamental question: How can human beings organise time in ways that sustain dignity, justice, and civilisation across generations?Readers interested in political philosophy, ethics, sociology, nationalism studies, history of ideas, consciousness studies, constitutional theory, and interdisciplinary philosophy will find a bold and original contribution that connects ontology with the practical challenges of contemporary society.Life in the Fragments of Time is not simply a study of history or politics.It is an invitation to understand human civilisation through the deepest structure that makes every civilisation possible: the organisation of time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…