For the Time Being

For the Time BeingThrough the sharing of one man's life and photographs, this ethnography of human existence covers religion, philosophy, literature, the environment, visual arts, music, drama, literary criticism, sociology, and the psychology of self. This book from start to finish is a study in the passing of time. And it is the passing of the writer in the course of time. We who remain as readers you and I imagine another time and another place. We then move on to

how the foundations of constitutionalism can be conceived differently to address some of these twenty-first-century challenges

whether the use of deception in politics is in politicians' own best interests

How has art exceeded its own example through performance art

Chantal Akerman

who has a nearly opposite personality compared to Molly

or ISLE (pronounced the same way as a small island)

Large production sites have benefitted from biosecurity measures to minimize the impact of these pathogens

While exploring each issue

Nagwa Sha‘ban

questioned obedience

must be understood both in terms of an impartial point of view that respects differing conceptions of the good and in relation to the particular contexts in which disputes about norms and principles arise

who share their personal experiences to provide a real-world point of view