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When speaking about time, one cannot avoid the temptation to use the language of phenomenologists and existentialists—'being' and 'becoming' and 'essence'—obviously because one has to deal with experience. The study of experience has been pursued most explicitly, indeed exclusively, by phenomenologists, dating as far back as Hegel, if not the ancient Greeks, the pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Democritus.
The present book is phenomenological in inspiration, socialpsychological in detail. Its goal is to describe the way people of different ages and sociocultural backgrounds deal with the ubiquitous experience