The Future of Time: Man's Temporal Environment

xvi, 512 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white charts and diagrams. This book is a collection of essays about man's perception of time. It is not a philosophical treatise but, rather, provides a series of discussions about things-in-time phenomenologically. This is approached in three ways: By examining time as a perceptual style, utilizing the studies of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and biology. By examining the perceptual patterns of the mentally disturbed and such deviant groups as alcoholics and drug users, on the assumption that a behavioral and social analysis will tell us as much about time as about the pathology. By examining the importance of time in communication and society, in the place it plays in work, play, and the future of man. - Preface