Suggested Readings
by the Faculty Fellows of the Penn Humanities Forum Research Seminar on Time

Adorno, Theodor. "On Lyric Poetry and Society," in Notes to Literature, Vol. 1 (Columbia Univ Press 1991).

Ankersmit, F.R. "Six Theses on Narrativist Philosophy of History." in The History and Narrative Reader, edited by Geoffrey Roberts.

Augustine. Confessions (Book 11).

Bakhtin, Mikhail. "Forms of Time and of the Chronotype in the Novel," in The Dialogic Imagination, trans.
C. Emerson & M. Holquist (Univ of Texas Press 1981),
pp. 84-258.

Benjamin, Walter. "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations (Fontana 1992), pp. 245-255.

Currie, Martin and Ian Steedman. Wrestling with Time: Problems in Economic Theory (Univ. of Michigan Press 1990), pp. 1-8.

Capek, Milic. "The Implicit Elimination of Time in Classical Physics," in The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics.

de Man, Paul. "Literary History and Literary Modernity,"
in Blindness and Insight, 2nd Edition. (Univ of Minnesota
Press 1983), pp. 142-165.

de Man, Paul. "Lyric and Modernity," in Blindness and Insight, 2nd Edition. (Univ of Minn Press 1983),
pp. 166-186.

Gerrard, Bill (ed). The Economics of Rationality
(Routledge 1993), pp. 52-68.

Leach, Edmund. "Primitive Calendars," Oceania V(XX): 245-262, 1950.

Leach, Edmund. "Time and False Noses," Explorations 5: 30-55, 1955.

Morris, Christopher. "Existential Limits to the Rectification of Past Wrongs", American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21(2): 175-181, April 1984.

Nietzche, Friedrich. "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," in Unfashionable Observations, trans. R. Gray (Stanford 1995), pp. 83-168.

Pocock, John. "Time, Institutions and Action: An Essay on Traditions and their Understanding," in Politics, Language and Time. (Atheneum 1973), pp. 233-272.

Ricouer, Paul. "The Aporias of the Experience of Time: Book 11 of Augustine's Confessions," in Time and Narrative, Vol. 1, trans. K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer (Univ of Chicago Press 1988), pp. 5-30.

Ricouer, Paul. "Between Lived Time and Universal Time: Historical Time," in Time and Narrative, Vol. 3, trans. K. Blamey and D. Pellauer (Univ of Chicago Press 1988), pp. 104-126.

Robinson, Joan. Collected Economic Papers. (MIT Press 1980), v.4, pp. 114-128; v.5, pp. 161-164, 168-177.

Shackle, G. L. S. Time, Expectations, and Uncertainty in Economics : Selected Essays of G.L.S. Shackle, ed. J.L. Ford. (E. Elgar c1990), pp. 3-27.

Stewart, Susan. "Preface to a Lyric History," The Uses of Literary History, ed. Marshall Brown (Duke Univ Press 1995), pp. 119-218.

Thompson, E.P. "Time, Work Discipline, and Capitalism"

Velleman, J. David. "Well-Being and Time," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72(1): 48-77.

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Belief, 2003–04

The Book, 2002–03

Time, 2001–02

Style, 2000–01

Human Nature, 1999–00