The Study of Time

The Study of Time is a series of peer-reviewed volumes of select collected essays invited after each triennial conference.  Time in Variance, Volume XVIII from the 2023 Conference in Yamaguchi, Japan is now available.

This volume of essays explores ideas of time and the measure of time, looking at how these vary and interact across disciplines, from J. T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time to phenomenology, considering Thoreau alongside Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, to the influence of a garden on Leibniz, to chronobiology and a consideration of postmodern, probabilistic measures of time. We look as well at human measures of time in Kazakh musical storytelling and medieval Japanese legend and turn finally to prose-poetry, video installation, and moving image art, along with considerations of Graham Swift and Ted Chiang’s modern novelistic explorations of time’s measure.

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Time in Variance, Volume XVIII

Editors: Stephanie Nelson, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Walter Schweidler

Publisher: Brill (Leiden)
                   Released: 2026
ISBN:        978-90-04-72362-7 (hardbook)
                    978-90-04-72363-4 (e-book)

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Stephanie Nelson, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Walter Schweidler
  • “Toward a Wider Horizon: Restricting the Umwelt Principle” by Raji C. Steineck
  • “Temporality in Layers: a Conversation between J. T. Fraser and E. Husserl” by Lanei Rodemeyer
  • “Leibniz and the Genius of Time” by Walter Schweidler
  • “Measuring and Taking the Measure of a Stone’s Time” by Paul A. Harris
  • “Logogenesis: the Genesis of Laws in the Postmodern Vision of Time” by Frederick Turner
  • “Pace and Time: Field Notes on the Art of Walking” by Arkadiusz Misztal
  • “Taking Chronobiology Seriously” by Kerstin Cuhls, Friederike Mork-Antony, Ralph Gutknecht, and Thomas Kantermann
  • “The Circadian Clock and Circadian Rhythm Measurement” by Ritsuko Matsumura
  • “The Body Narrated: Shifting Time Zones in Medieval Legends and Tales” by Daniela Tan
  • “Narrative Time in Kazakh Sybyzghy Performance” by Xiaoshi Wei
  • “Temporal Saturation; Whens” by Chloe Garcia Roberts
  • “Once Upon a Time Again and Again: Temporal Non-Linearity in Graham Swift’s Waterland” by Sanyogita Singh
  • “Branching Timelines and Measuring the Unled Life in Ted Chiang’s ‘Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom'” by Jo Alyson Parker
  • “The Timekeeper and the Hour Glass: Artist Moving Image and Poetic Nonlinear Aspects of Time” by Karen Heald
  • “Measuring Uncertainty” by Emily DiCarlo