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Some Thoughts on Comparability and the Space-Time Problem.

This essay explores the increasing contemporary turn toward space and the resulting strategies of this move based on the elucidation of spatial categories in the interpretative sciences. It raises and answers the question of temporality and the consequences of its recession from social and historica...

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Published in:Boundary 2 Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 23 - 53
Main Author: Harootunian, Harry
Format: Essay
Published: Duke University Press Summer2005
Subjects:
Spacetime
Science
Philosophy
Space sciences
Time
Social theory
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This essay explores the increasing contemporary turn toward space and the resulting strategies of this move based on the elucidation of spatial categories in the interpretative sciences. It raises and answers the question of temporality and the consequences of its recession from social and historical analysis and the effect of withdrawal of time on the capacity for comparative study.