Da capo — a fresh start to remedy the consequences stemming from ancient Greek philosophical misconceptions of time that are entrenched also in today’s mathematized physics. Here time is spatialized as the one-dimensionally linear ‘arrow of time’ for the sake of predicting and controlling movement. But such spatialized time distorts the phenomenon of time itself. An alternative, hermeneutic-phenomenological path begins with a pre-spatial concept of time that is genuinely three-dimensional. This paves the way for recasting who we are as humans in belonging, first of all, to the free openness of 3D-temporality. This belonging enables temporally 3D-vision of the psyche that empowers us to see movement at all and reconcile its inherent contradictoriness. We are then also able to conceive ourselves no longer merely as internally cogitating, self-conscious subjects, but as engaged existentially in temporally 3D-interplay, mutually estimating and esteeming who we are. This unpredictable interplay is constrained, however, by being played immersed in the all-pervasive, global sociating medium of thingified value, This medium enables a globalized economy, whose principle of movement is the accumulation of thingified value, a principle that has gained the upper hand in dictating our life-movements as well as our interplay with the Earth.

Published by De Gruyter, Berlin 2024.