Temporality

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In philosophy, '''temporality''' refers to the idea of a linear progression of past, present, and future. The term is frequently used, however, in the context of critiques of commonly held ideas of linear time. In social sciences, temporality is studied with respect to the human perception of time and the social organization of time.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ialenti |first1=Vincent |title=Deep Time Reckoning |publisher=The MIT Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780262539265 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> The perception of time in Western thought underwent significant changes in the three hundred years between the Middle Ages and modernity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Utz |first1=Richard |year=2011 |title=Negotiating Heritage: Observations on Semantic Concepts, Temporality, and the Centre of the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals |url=https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin58/p58t8.htm |issue=58 |pages=70–87 |issn=1433-7177 |journal=Philologie Im Netz}}</ref>

Examples in Continental philosophy of philosophers raising questions of temporality include Edmund Husserl's analysis of internal time consciousness, Martin Heidegger's ''Being and Time'', J. M. E. McTaggart's article "The Unreality of Time", George Herbert Mead's ''Philosophy of the Present'', and Jacques Derrida's criticisms of Husserl's analysis.

Temporality is "deeply intertwined with the rhetorical act of harnessing and subverting power in the unfolding struggle for justice."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bjork |first1=Collin |last2=Buhre |first2=Frida |date=2021-05-27 |title=Resisting Temporal Regimes, Imagining Just Temporalities |journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=177–181 |doi=10.1080/02773945.2021.1918503 |issn=0277-3945 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Temporalities, particularly in European settler colonialism, have been observed in critical theory as a tool for both subjugation and oppression of Indigenous communities, and Native resistance to that oppression.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Buhre |first1=Frida |last2=Bjork |first2=Collin |date=2021-05-27 |title=Braiding Time: Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice |journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=227–236 |doi=10.1080/02773945.2021.1918515 |issn=0277-3945 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Temporal turn== In historiography, questioning periodization, and as a further development after the spatial turn, social sciences have started re-investigating time and its different social understanding.<ref name="Corfield 2015 pp. 259–273">{{Cite book |last1=Corfield |first1=Penelope J. |title=Les âges de Britannia |publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes |year=2015 |isbn=9782753540200 |pages=259–273 |chapter=History and the Temporal Turn: Returning to Causes, Effects and Diachronic Trends |doi=10.4000/books.pur.92961}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Yael |title=Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound |url=https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/4382/chick-tv/ |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9780815637240 |language=en}}</ref> Temporal turn social science investigates different understandings of time at different times and locations, giving rise to concepts such as ''timespace'' where time and space are thought together.<ref name="May Thrift 2003 p. ">{{Cite book |last1=May |first1=J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSOEAgAAQBAJ |title=Timespace: Geographies of Temporality |last2=Thrift |first2=N. |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-134-67785-6 |series=Critical Geographies |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Wiktionary}} {{Wikiquote}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090814164814/http://www.ceitt.com/index-en.html CEITT – ''Time and Temporality Research Center'']

Category:Philosophy of time