Summary
What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives?
In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the reader on a journey of discovery that extends from ancient mythology and classical philosophy to the contemporary social world of high-speed computer networks and globalized social r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745627779 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745627773 |
| Author: | Barbara Adam |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 137mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Key Concepts |
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Critics Review
“Read a few paragraphs and your mind is racing onto other themes, examples and questions. The book can be used in a variety of different ways and the reader is fortunate that Barbara Adam has not lost her gift for bringing a sense of urgency and excitement to the topic.”
Sociology
“An obvious candidate to be the book which anyone should read if they want an overview of the field, but it will also offers fresh insights to those who have already made their own temporal investigations … it is a delight to me to see the full flowering of such a persistent and imaginative scholar.”
British Journal of Sociology
“This is a very wide-ranging and erudite examination of countless notions of time throughout history. Barbara Adam sets out a whole new agenda for ‘time’ analysis.”
John Urry, University of Lancaster
“In a book grounded in top-notch scholarship, Barbara Adam traces how time has been viewed and lived through history and civilization.”
Ronald Purser, San Francisco State University
About The Author
Barbara Adam
Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.
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