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Time: Modern and postmodern<br />

In this article, the issue of time is problematised at several levels. First of all, the<br />

social meaning of time and the ways in which this meaning has been organised<br />

historically are evaluated. Secondly, the relation between time and ways of production<br />

is considered in a modernist sense. Thirdly, the philosophers who consider<br />

the subjectivity of time are described.<br />

Despite the fact that the philosophers who reflect on time are evaluated, this<br />

article does not focus on the nature of time per se. Therefore, the transformations<br />

in the perception of time are discussed at philosophical, social and political-economy<br />

levels. According to these levels, our arguments in this study are<br />

as follows: (1) There is a positive theoretical emphasis on “present time” nowadays;<br />

(2) The comprehension of subjective time came to dominate the comprehension<br />

of objective time; (3) Futurism seems to be getting weaker while utopianism<br />

is in decline; (4) The “past” is perceived not as absolute truths but as regulated<br />

narratives in postmodernism; (5) Time is dealt with spatiality; (6) The<br />

linear conception of time has been questioned and its connections with the<br />

project of modernism has been problematised. These arguments can enable<br />

one to construct a framework in which to think to about the continuities and<br />

discontinuities on modernist and postmodernist comprehensions of time.

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