Nadolny, S. 32, 150
Negt, O. 104, 137
Neubaur, C. 144
Newton, I. 20 law of gravitation 1
Nietzsche, F. 154
night 'colonialization of’ 99 difference from day negated 19
Nizan, P. 142–3
past 'closed’ 58 in Enlightenment 45 see also history
physics 17, 20, 56, 150, 154
Planck's scale 17
poèsie simultanèe 27
Pomian, K. 54
potlatches 119
power: exercised by states over time and space 148
present characteristics of 58 in dictatorial regimes 149 impinged upon by future 49 perception of 21 ‘specious’41 see also extended present
Prigogine, I. and Stengers, I. 7, 154, 155 Entre le Temps et l’Eternité quoted 75
prioritization 134
Pritchard, P. 123, 130
lex production technologies 47–8, 97, 109–11, 129 progress accelerating 46, 89, 149 ageing 65 collapsing 51 concept of 16 human 33 open-endedness 72-3 problems of material and social 48-9 sciences essential to 89 promises: temporal implications of 146 'proper time' and bourgeoisie 12–13, 38 concept of Eigenzeit 1-2 desire for 128, 131, 132-3, 157 emergence of 36, 38–9 individual 43, 144–5 and Relativity Theory 2-3, 38 social interpretation of 4-5, 41-2 of technologies 62 of women 13 Proust, M. 22
psychology 21
punctuality 64 quantum mechanics 20-1 queuing time 141 regularities, beauty of 62 religion superseded as time-giver by science 83-4, 151 time-giving function of 36–7, 56, 94, 105 see also God: superseded as Creator by science
Rinderspacher, J. P. 105
ritual as assertion of group over individual 31-2 preservation of objects through 71
Salomon, J.-J. 35
Sartre, J.-P. 142
Schumpeter, J. 11, 90, 91, 92
science laboratory v. field observations in 77-8, 88 researchers in, globally linked 78 v. magic and religion 75–6, 82, 83, 151 and progress 89 and society 75 sociology of 75, 76–7 time-structures created by 79, 80, 82, 151, 154, 156
simultaneity 9–10, 19, 22–3, 30, 31 discovered 27-8 illusoriness of 10, 33 problematic for anthropologists 34-5 in scientific research 78-9
'social time' 150
slowness 32–3, 150
social welfare legislation 114-15
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