Book A Month Challenge: read a book about time
Written on January 3, 2008
The Book A Month Challenge theme for January is time, an excellent choice that should be easy to connect with “books on the mind.” I think the hard part will be picking out one book to read! I’d especially like to find a good book on subjective time experience, or maybe something in the anthropology of time, comparing time experiences across cultures. Here are some possibilities:
- An Experiment With Time (Studies in Consciousness)
by J.W. Dunne – a classic
- Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)
by Benjamin Libet
- The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation
by Robin Le Poidevin
Or, already in my library waiting to be read (sometime!):
- Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past
by Eviatar Zerubavel
- The Story of Time
(an exhibition catalog with essays by Umberto Eco and others)
Here’s a “LibraryThing tagmash” on time, mind
and one on time, anthropology
Filed in: Book A Month Challenge,culture,mind,reading,reality.
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