Time: The Familiar Stranger (Tempus)

By J.T. Fraser

Book Overview

No part of existence is more intimately familiar, yet more elusive and mysterious, than time. This wide-ranging, learned, and accessible book surveys the enormous variety of our understandings of time, both in the everyday world and in the specialized realms of the sciences and humanities. From the majestic visions of time and the timeless in major religions, derived from ordinary activity, J.T.Fraser offers the general reader a history of the idea and experience of time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870235761
• ISBN13: 9780870235764
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 389 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Time: The Familiar Stranger

This book journeys into a realm that few of us spend much effort thinking about. The paradox being that we all are a part of this mass movement. This is an excellent book. Anyone who thinks much about existance of humanity or reasons of being should read this book. I feel it reveals much about how we choose to live our lives and why we take on the pursuits we do.