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(2016) The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
For better or for worse, it is well known that the various philosophies of our Western tradition—the overtly systematic ones and those which did not manage or did not wish to be so—have been skillful and more or less successful attempts to organize, in a broad sense, the world and its vast and meaningful aspects. With respect to these, an atlas is a historical–theoretical product of a metaphysical nature: it is an instrument which—starting from an ordering principle—aims to offer the reader a “systematization” of those cultural productions that can be gathered under the concept of “philosophy” (or close to the latter in content and style of thought, though originating in other scientific contexts) and which contain a reading of the real. In brief: if, in general, the philosophies wish to furnish reference points by which to orient ourselves in our life in the world, an atlas aims to be a kind of map, a “road map” (Merker 2002: 11) to orient ourselves among these various orientative...
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24895-0_1
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Diana, R. (2016)., Introduction, in F. Santoianni (ed.), The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-4.
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