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Body in time: Timeless body a patchwork of thoughts
Eberhard Wenzel
Abstract
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. Ronald D Laing (1965: 12)
When time grows short, self-serving wins out over others-serving. Lee Burns (1993: 332)
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but to justify his logic at all cost. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981: 2S)
'The important thing,' Castel replied, 'isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.' Albert Camus (1991: 48)
This piece of work reflects my theoretical interest in the concept of body and time. There is no other interest in this paper than the pleasure to think, to speculate, to assume or to suppose whatever comes to mind in the given context. This is not what reviewers call a 'scientific paper' because I am trying to explore something of which I do not yet know what it is all about. The paper contains subjective, sometimes even personal thoughts.
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