Raji C. Steineck, Dr. phil. (1999) in philosophy, Bonn University, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. His main interest is in the philosophy of culture and symbolic forms. He has published extensively on Japanese philosophy and intellectual history, and edited, with Jo Alyson Parker and Paul A. Harris, Time: Limits and Constraints (Brill, 2010).Claudia Clausius, M.Litt Oxon, Ph D. Toronto, is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Modern Languages at King’s University College/Western University Canada. Her main research area is the intersection between modern art and drama. Among her publications, she has written on Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon, Paul Klee and modernism, Harold Pinter, and Wole Soyinka.

• ObituaryIntroductionAcknowledgementsSection I: "Origins Explained"J. T. Fraser: Founder's lecturePaul Harris: President's AddressWalter Schweidler: On the Social Origin of Time in LanguageRosemary Huisman: The Origins of Language and Narrative TemporalitiesSection II: "From Future to Origin: Temporal Inversions and Asymmetries"Sabine Gross: Endings as OriginsCarol Fischer: The Time Plays of J. B. PriestleyMichael Crawford: Big Science: Marching Forward to the PastFriedel Weinert: The Past-Future AsymmetrySection III: "Futures opened, Futures closed"Steven Ostovich: The Human Temporal Condition Between Memory and HopePatricia Engle: Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat"Marcus Bullock: Tales of Time and TerrorMasae Yuasa: Futures of August 6th 1945: a case of 'peaceful utilization' of nuclear energy in JapanKarmen MacKendrick: Forgiveness as the Opening of the FutureIndexList of Contributors