Abstract

In the history of philosophy, the question of time was ordinarily formulated by asking what time is. Yet, already Kant claimed that time is only accessible to us by representing it – a term that he introduced into the philosophical tradition. Accordingly, the question of time should be transformed into: How can time be represented? Furthermore, a closer examination of Kant’s example of representing time ‘under the image of a line, which we draw in thought’, makes evident that the time represented depends, at least partially, on the characteristics of the concrete form of representation. I discuss this entanglement of the ways of representation and the concepts of time they represent, using the example of Eadweard Muybridges chronophotography: a snapshot, a series of snapshots and their projected moving image