Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTemporal Humanity: Involvement with Ethics and Time Across Cultures, Natan Elgabsi and Bennett GilbertI. History as Ethics1. Past Deeds and the On-going Work of History, Réal Fillion2. The Time of Ghosts and the Ghosts of Time, Ethan Kleinberg3. Gifts from the Dead: Heritage and the Ligatures of History, Hans Ruin4. Multilayered Temporalities Underlying Transitional Justice: Rethinking Resentment and Melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin, Rafael Pérez BaqueroII. Agency, Relativity, and Affect5. The Relativism of Historical Distance and the Contextual Constitution of Agency, Nora Hämäläinen 6. Heroism, Self-determination, and Magnanimity: Hegel and Brandom on Self-conscious Agency, Chiel van den Akker7. Farness and Immemorial Time: An Ontology of Vestiges, Roberto WuIII. Mortality and Personal Identity8. Neither to Be, Nor not to Be: The Interrelation of Life and Death in Tanabe’s Later Philosophy of Death, Takeshi Morisato9. Arresting Time’s Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union, Megan Fritts10. Heidegger’s Process Metaphysics of Personhood, Anne Sophie MeinckeIV. Reconsidering Ontology11. “When the time is right…” In the Maori World, Georgina Tuari Stewart12. Levinas on Time: The Ethical Import of our Existential Chronological Inconsistency, Benda Hofmeyr13. Historical Time, Collective Memory, and the Finitude of Historical Understanding, Jeffrey Andrew Barash14. The Time of History, Jan-Ivar LindénV. Concluding Reflections from Existential Anthropology15. The Death of the Angel: In Search of a Tango of Temporal Humanity, Ruth BeharIndex

Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTemporal Humanity: Involvement with Ethics and Time Across Cultures, Natan Elgabsi and Bennett GilbertI. History as Ethics1. Past Deeds and the On-going Work of History, Réal Fillion2. The Time of Ghosts and the Ghosts of Time, Ethan Kleinberg3. Gifts from the Dead: Heritage and the Ligatures of History, Hans Ruin4. Multilayered Temporalities Underlying Transitional Justice: Rethinking Resentment and Melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin, Rafael Pérez BaqueroII. Agency, Relativity, and Affect5. The Relativism of Historical Distance and the Contextual Constitution of Agency, Nora Hämäläinen 6. Heroism, Self-determination, and Magnanimity: Hegel and Brandom on Self-conscious Agency, Chiel van den Akker7. Farness and Immemorial Time: An Ontology of Vestiges, Roberto WuIII. Mortality and Personal Identity8. Neither to Be, Nor not to Be: The Interrelation of Life and Death in Tanabe’s Later Philosophy of Death, Takeshi Morisato9. Arresting Time’s Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union, Megan Fritts10. Heidegger’s Process Metaphysics of Personhood, Anne Sophie MeinckeIV. Reconsidering Ontology11. “When the time is right…” In the Maori World, Georgina Tuari Stewart12. Levinas on Time: The Ethical Import of our Existential Chronological Inconsistency, Benda Hofmeyr13. Historical Time, Collective Memory, and the Finitude of Historical Understanding, Jeffrey Andrew Barash14. The Time of History, Jan-Ivar LindénV. Concluding Reflections from Existential Anthropology15. The Death of the Angel: In Search of a Tango of Temporal Humanity, Ruth BeharIndex

Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTemporal Humanity: Involvement with Ethics and Time Across Cultures, Natan Elgabsi and Bennett GilbertI. History as Ethics1. Past Deeds and the On-going Work of History, Réal Fillion2. The Time of Ghosts and the Ghosts of Time, Ethan Kleinberg3. Gifts from the Dead: Heritage and the Ligatures of History, Hans Ruin4. Multilayered Temporalities Underlying Transitional Justice: Rethinking Resentment and Melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin, Rafael Pérez BaqueroII. Agency, Relativity, and Affect5. The Relativism of Historical Distance and the Contextual Constitution of Agency, Nora Hämäläinen 6. Heroism, Self-determination, and Magnanimity: Hegel and Brandom on Self-conscious Agency, Chiel van den Akker7. Farness and Immemorial Time: An Ontology of Vestiges, Roberto WuIII. Mortality and Personal Identity8. Neither to Be, Nor not to Be: The Interrelation of Life and Death in Tanabe’s Later Philosophy of Death, Takeshi Morisato9. Arresting Time’s Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union, Megan Fritts10. Heidegger’s Process Metaphysics of Personhood, Anne Sophie MeinckeIV. Reconsidering Ontology11. “When the time is right…” In the Maori World, Georgina Tuari Stewart12. Levinas on Time: The Ethical Import of our Existential Chronological Inconsistency, Benda Hofmeyr13. Historical Time, Collective Memory, and the Finitude of Historical Understanding, Jeffrey Andrew Barash14. The Time of History, Jan-Ivar LindénV. Concluding Reflections from Existential Anthropology15. The Death of the Angel: In Search of a Tango of Temporal Humanity, Ruth BeharIndex