Time After Time

Summary

This essay is an analysis of a series of writings by the Australian intellectual historian Ian Hunter on the subject of ‘theory’. It examines the methodological issues raised by attempting to write a history of theory. The essay particularly seeks to analyse the various aporias at stake in Hunter's project: between the empirical and the transcendental, between history and the event, and between theory and ‘empirical’ history.     

赋予时间意义——以历史意识为概念基础的普遍分类学

以下观点①来自对历史编纂学的比较研究。有一种原则把过去理解为历史。在这种原则或至少类似原则基础的化背景中,比较研究很容易就可以做到。以比较的方法对西方历史思维进行的基本研究和解释已经开展,但是从一种跨化的比较角度看待过去的方法(这种方法导致了历史思想的产生)进行比较就有更大的难度。     

开罗,时间害怕金字塔

雾霾笼罩下的开罗城看起来老态龙钟,灰暗古朴,颤微微的,仿佛带着中世纪的气息.开罗意为“胜利之城”,是阿拉伯人建立的城市.虽然只有1500年的历史,因为城南30公里处的古都孟菲斯和“太阳城”赫里奥波利斯,开罗又有“世界文明之母”和“世界城市之母”的美誉.相对其他阿拉伯国家,许多开罗女孩没有将自己包起来,反倒穿着紧身裤、短夹克,打扮得新潮.     

Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time

This article investigates the differential structure and representation of time in memory and history. It examines two moments in Jewish historical thought—in the Middle Ages, and in works written within and after the Holocaust—and demonstrates the fundamentally liturgical nature of Jewish historical memory in selected texts from these two periods. Following the groundbreaking work of Yerushalmi, it seeks to demonstrate that for Jews, historical experience is incorporated into the cyclical reenactment of paradigmatic events in Jewish sacred ritual. Recent or contemporary experiences acquire meaning only insofar as they can be subsumed within Biblical categories of events and their interpretation bequeathed to the community through the medium of Scripture, that is to say, only insofar as they can be transfigured, ritually and liturgically, into repetitions and reenactments of ancient happening. In such liturgical commemoration, the past exists only by means of recitation; the fundamental goal of such recitation is to make it live again in the present, to fuse past and present, chanter and hearer, into a single collective entity. History, in the sense that we understand it to consist of unique events unfolding within irreversible linear time, is absorbed into cyclical, liturgical memory.
This article argues that the question of Jewish history—both medieval and post-Holocaust—poses in a compelling fashion the question of the relationship between memory and history more generally, and serves to contest the current tendency in academic historiography to collapse history into memory. It claims that to the extent that memory "resurrects,""re-cycles," and makes the past "reappear" and live again in the present, it cannot perform historically, since it refuses to keep the past in the past, to draw the line, as it were, that is constitutive of the modern enterprise of historiography.     

论县制起源的时间

县制是很古老的制度,而县制的起源颇有争议,本文系统总结了历代关于县制起源时间的说法,认为县制当起源于西周时期,并且提出确定县制的起源不应当仅仅从县字的出现入手,而应当从性质上讨论.     

沙时纪 沙漠之旅,时间之旅

<正>沙漠是这样一种地方:踏入之前忧心忡忡,迈出之时毫无遗憾。时间如沙,从指间流过。不同于其他大多数测量时间的方法,具体的沙漏代表了抽象的过去和未来,也使沙成为了某种持久的时间符号。莫斯科红场上伫立着世界上最大的沙漏,由丙烯酸玻璃和钢铁制成的它,在阳光下尤其晶莹剔透。漫画家芦原妃名子描绘了一段从初恋延展开的爱情故事,用沙漏和日本根岛的沙漏博物馆牵系起男女主人公从青梅竹马到分道扬镳,再到重圆旧梦的十多年历程。锥形玻璃瓶中,簌簌流淌的细沙诉说出各种温暖的、旖旎的、悲怆的不可思议的故事。     

沙时纪 沙漠之旅,时间之旅

<正>沙漠是这样一种地方:踏入之前忧心忡忡,迈出之时毫无遗憾。时间如沙,从指间流过。不同于其他大多数测量时间的方法,具体的沙漏代表了抽象的过去和未来,也使沙成为了某种持久的时间符号。莫斯科红场上伫立着世界上最大的沙漏,由丙烯酸玻璃和钢铁制成的它,在阳光下尤其晶莹剔透。漫画家芦原妃名子描绘了一段从初恋延展开的爱情故事,用沙漏和日本根岛的沙漏博物馆牵系起男女主人公从青梅竹马到分道扬镳,再到重圆旧梦的十多年历程。锥形玻璃瓶中,簌簌流淌的细沙诉说出各种温暖的、旖旎的、悲怆的不可思议的故事。     

对佛教初传中国内地的时间及路线的再考察

佛教传入中国内地的时间历来众说纷纭,传入路线亦有陆上及海上两说。事实上,佛教是逐渐地而且是从不同的方向、通过不同的方式传来的。在北方,由印度经中亚,沿丝绸之路进入中国内地;在南方,通过海上丝绸之路传至广州、交州等地,再进入中国内地。传入时间大致为两汉之际。而且无论以何种方式传入,都与中国同当时的印度与中亚等地的商业活动密切相关。     

Time to dread

This article examines ecological thought and eschatology, an interpretation of the end of the world. It draws upon the teachings of the Quran and the knowledge of Bosnian Muslim beekeepers to explore how climate disasters and global bee colony collapses affect people's lives and the environment. The article examines how these changes alter the relationships between plants, animals and humans and suggests that eco-eschatology can help us better understand and address the crisis. It also suggests that, instead of despairing or giving up, we should seek insight and advice on what we can do in the face of ‘the End’ and take solace in the generosity of God.     

The Study of Time: Proceedings of the First and Second Conferences of the International Society for the Study of Time

Abstract

In the past, the nobility of science was taken for granted, and it was universally venerated. Today many scienti!, ts are depressed by the morally doubtful applications of science: the high ideals of science should prevent the application of science to weapons research. In comparing science and religion, the moral dimensions of science are stress, ed and their extension is urged. In this way the world can be saved from war and the dignity and nobility of science can be restored.     

Defending the Concept of Time in the Hebrew Bible

Abstract

Due to the scarcity of reflection on time as an independent subject in the Hebrew Bible, there has been a scholarly tendency to consider biblical time conception more limited than our own_perhaps even nonexistent. This article confronts the scholarly skepticism regarding the ability of the biblical authors to think about time, defending the presence of time conceptualization in the Hebrew Bible. In the article I discuss central research contributions to the subject of biblical time, in particular Sacha Stern’s thesis that the concept of time is entirely absent from the Hebrew Bible and from ancient Judaism more widely. I explore linguistic and anthropological assumptions which underpin large parts of the discussion on time within biblical studies, arguing that one cannot assume on the basis of either that the biblical authors lacked a concept of time. Finally, I suggest that the ability of the biblical writers to coordinate unrelated processes according to a temporal axis is a strong argument in favour of their awareness of time.     

Random Time Sampling

Random Time Sampling is an innovative data collection method which has potential for adaptation and use by geographers. Individual pocket-sized programmable beepers were used in a pilot study of the uses of time by older households and older people's attitudes to different activities. Random beeps were used to prompt individuals living in eleven Melbourne suburbs to record time use data in diaries over a period of a week. The method proved extremely effective and reliable, and many participants reporting that they enjoyed the exercise.     

陈氏书院建造年代考

广州陈氏书院是全国重点物保护单位,其始建年代尚无定论。本主要依据《陈氏书院契据登记簿》中记载的陈氏书院兴建时选地购地资料,认为其始建于光绪十四年(1888年)。     

光河里自在的女儿鱼

寒冬的风在石楼的外面旋转呼啸着,夜．静极了．只有风．古老的风,让我细听着它们的祈祷．风在冬日黑色的田野猎猎回响．在夜晚激烈地呼吸着。我裹紧外婆留下的尼泊尔薄呢披毯．嗅着上面残留着的外婆温暖的气息．来到石楼顶上．久久地感受着夜风那紧密的拥抱,在夜风的摇曳中．我出神地眺望着山下河谷中的拉萨．那些彻夜不眠的街灯．从这夜望去,好像酥油金灯交织的河,而遥望中的拉萨．从我的心灵深处．恍若绽开的神圣的花蕊……