Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love with Vincent Colapietro

May 7, 2022 – A. N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro has seized the occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and, for a time, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time, above all, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists…