Time has the characteristic of only being experienced as a conflict, which makes it similar to health.
Diverging perceptions of time are one of the fundamental conflicts between different social and cultural groups. The power of time determines courses of action and processes, sets values and norms, and keeps people and society under its spell. Likewise, ethical or political directives can organize temporal structures. Time is an essential feature of life, of every decision and action, whether in science or in everyday life. However, how time is experienced and understood varies historically, culturally and socially and also depends on the respective personal, institutional or social context.
The experience and understanding of time is tied to the time in which we live; to the respective epoch in which everyday time and life time are experienced differently. Each epoch has its own life-scientific and socio-cultural time regimes, which can be worked out from a time-phenomenological, socio-philosophical or cultural-theoretical perspective. But how does the temporal organization of actions and social processes influence ethical views and decisions? In what way do temporal and spatial structures give rise to different ethics of responsibility?
Publications
Schües, C. & Delhom, P. (2016). Zeit und Frieden, Reihe: Friedenstheorien, Bd. 2, Freiburg / München: Alber. [Darin: Einleitung: Zeitphilosophische Herausforderungen eines Denkens des Friedens, 7-28; Friedenswege in zeitlicher Diskontintuität, 224-254]
Schües, C. (2016). Transzendenz in Beziehung. Zur Diskontinuität der Zeit, In: B. Liebsch (Hg.): Der Andere in der Geschichte – Sozialphilosophie im Zeichen des Krieges. Ein kooperativer Kommentar zu Emmanuel Levinas' "Totalität und Unendlichkeit". Freiburg/ München: Alber, pp. 323-344.
Schües, C. (2015). Situative Identität? Sozialität und Selbstverhältnis unter dem Zeitregime der Spätmoderne, In: Holger Zaborowski, Željko Radinkovic, Rastko Jovanov (Hg.), Phänomenologische Ontologie des Sozialen. Verlag Institut für Philosophie und Gesellschaftstheorie, Belgrad, pp. 35-60. philpapers.org/archive/JOVPOD.pdf
Schües, C. (2014). Die Zeitsensibilität der Menschen und die Zeitregime des Alters. Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie, 1(1), 99-135. https://www.praktische-philosophie.org/zfpp/article/view/69/59
Schües, C. (2014). Age and Future. In: S. Stoller (ed.), The Coming of Age. Simone de Beauvoir on Age and Aging. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 215-230. www.degruyter.com/view/title/305571
Schües, C., Olkowski D. & Fielding, H. (2011). Time in Feminist Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
