Time's Ferryman: Modern and Nostalgic: Modern and Nostalgic

Author: Aga?inski
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: The soul, imprisoned in its body, is not "at home": the body is its tomb, just as the world is its cave. It longs to rediscover its true place, the realm of thought, the world of the mind. Philosophy should free the soul and the body that fixes it. Whether people are intoxicated in melancholic sorrow and the anticipation of death, or hiding in the futile hope of eternity, each time they are stepping away from reality: deviating from the work of existence that is passing. Life itself is always more in need of forgetting than memory. The very act of demanding to build monuments is the fulfillment of the desire to entrust memory to the traces of matter—and this is also to liberate us better from the past. Based on the author's review, comparison, and commentary on the great philosophers of ancient and modern times, such as Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Freud, and especially Walter Benjamin's reflections and views on time, this book elaborates on the author's unique insights into time.