Philosophy of the Short Term

The concept of the short term involves a complex network of quantitative, qualitative, and operational ideas. It is essential everywhere from the ontology of time, to the science of memory, to the preservation of art, to emotional life, to the practice of ethics. But what does the idea of the short term mean? What makes a temporal term short? What makes a time segment terminate? Is the short term a quantitative idea, or a qualitative or functional idea? When is it a good idea to understand events as short term events, and when is it a good idea to make decisions based on the short term? What does it mean for the nature of time if some of it can be short?Jay Lampert explores these questions in depth and makes use of the resources of short (as well as long) term processes in order to develop best temporal practices in ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical activities, both theoretical and practical. The methodology develops ideas based on the history of philosophy (from Plato to Hegel to Husserl to Deleuze), interdisciplinary studies (from cognitive science to poetics), and practical spheres where short term practices have been studied extensively (from short term psychotherapy to short term financial investments). is the first book to deal systematically with the concept of the short term.>

Préface
The first book of philosophy to define the concepts and controversies, the phenomenological conditions and variable structures, and the practical resources, of short term temporality

Auteur
Jay Lampert is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, USA), and College of Arts Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada). His books include Synthesis and Backward Reference in Husserl's Logical Investigations (*1995); *Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History (Bloomsbury 2006); Simultaneity and Delay (Bloomsbury 2012); and The Many Futures of a Decision (Bloomsbury 2018)

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction to Concepts of the Short Term Chapter 2: Phenomenological Short Term (Kant, Hegel, Husserl) Chapter 3: The Short Time Remaining Until Death (De Beauvoir, Schopenhauer) Chapter 4: Short Term History (Ricoeur, Braudel, Hegel) Chapter 5: Short Term Memory (Cognitive Psychology) Chapter 6: Short Term Measured by Quantity (Time Atoms, Hegel) Chapter 7: Short Term Ethics (Socrates, Cyrenaics, Utilitarianism) Chapter 8: Short Term in Practice (Psychotherapy, Investment, Politics, Missions, and Romance) Chapter 9: Short Term Aesthetics (Ephemeral Art and the Free Use of Temporal Constraints) Chapter 10: Have short ideas (Deleuze and Guattari): A General Theory of Temporal Segmentation