Affiliation:
1. Univerzitet u Zadru, Profesor u penziji
Abstract
Linear time is a standard term in many sciences and is important in the study
of evolution. In this paper, several critical arguments are presented in
terms of the notion of linear time from quantum mechanics over cosmological
anthropic principle to the sociology of time with special reference to
contemporary societies (Gurvitch). In considering the causes of contemporary
crises that jeopardize liberal capitalism and democracy, and threaten the
survival of humanity, the concept of ?long nineteenth century? whose
features are recycled in a system of inequality and conflict on the social
class-nation-empire line was proposed as an explanatory framework. As an
alternative concept of time, a triple spiral has been proposed whose traces
can be recognized in Simmel, and in an explicit way in works of art. Further
discussion of the applicability of nonlinear time in the theory of society
would probably be difficult, as it implies a paradigmatic shift from new
geocentrism and the anthropic principle to the cosmic relations of human
society, which can be discerned more in hermeneutic than analytical and
critical approaches to society.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia