Abstract

The author addresses three interlocking issues in this rich and interesting study: time-consciousness ; the question of temporal realism ; and the possibility of a special temporality belonging to human beings. The author's approach to these questions is phenomenological, generally in Husserl's sense of the term, although he does not hesitate to amend Husserl's method from a Heideggerian perspective and even to depart from it in ways that might leave Husserl himself quite aghast--as in the use of conclusions drawn from current psychological and neurophysiological studies of the dependence of mental processes on brain functions.