Steve Ostovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 9726367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Ostovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostovich |
| SIGNATURE | OSTOVICH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of St. Scholastica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7062-2345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cage of Days
The Temporal Challenge of Hope
Hope informs and inspires our actions. We look to succeed at achieving what we hope for, and this orients our hope towards the future in which time is conceived linearly. The connection between hope as success and linear time creates several difficulties when we seek to defend our hope. This is especially the case regarding past hopes and the dead, who can no longer hope for themselves. J. T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time’s conflicts is a …
Time and Power
Out of Plato’s Cave
The title is lifted from an essay by J. T. Fraser in his book Time and Time Again (2007). It conveys Fraser’s conviction, a conviction shared here, that understanding time and reality requires us to redirect our thinking process. Plato describes a path out of the dark cave of confusion into the realm of truth and light, that is, from time towards the timeless. But we should “reverse course” along this path and move from the timeless into the comp…
The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka's Fiction
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The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka's Fiction
Time and Power
Out of Plato’s Cave
The title is lifted from an essay by J. T. Fraser in his book Time and Time Again (2007). It conveys Fraser’s conviction, a conviction shared here, that understanding time and reality requires us to redirect our thinking process. Plato describes a path out of the dark cave of confusion into the realm of truth and light, that is, from time towards the timeless. But we should “reverse course” along this path and move from the timeless into the comp…
The Temporal Challenge of Hope
Hope informs and inspires our actions. We look to succeed at achieving what we hope for, and this orients our hope towards the future in which time is conceived linearly. The connection between hope as success and linear time creates several difficulties when we seek to defend our hope. This is especially the case regarding past hopes and the dead, who can no longer hope for themselves. J. T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time’s conflicts is a …
The Cage of Days
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