Time

Monthly Lecture How to deal with what we use to call time? There are four families of such temporal practices: chronometry, chronology, chronography, and chronosophy. In other words, we measure “time”, we determine our position in “time”, we register events that occur in “time”, and we think and speak about “time”. Each of these practices ascribes different characters to what it calls “time”. Are they dealing with the same object or with four different objects? If the latter is true, why are...