The Ideal Of Time In Post-modern Condition

Time becomes an unavoidable and very important question in western philosophy since Plato. The research of it began from Plato's Rationalism tradition, which regards time as the shadow of being, then Aristotle regarded it as one of attributes of object's movement. In Middle Ages, one idea of time came from Christianity' eschatology(teleology), the other from scientific thought of physics. San Agustin blazed a way in internal study of time called theory of soul, and Kant regarded time and space as transcendental category which can't be watched directly but without them objects can't be sensed.In modern times, Bergson's research is a turn point. The core of his theory is Duration,which identifies the Change and Becoming as the character of beauty. Edmund Husserl' phenomenology and Martin Heidegger' existentialism contributed to the modern idea of time so much, and J.Derrida leaded the history of idea of time to post-modern stage though deconstruction of both of them. The paper receives Fredric Jameson' describe about the post-modern stage—which is the disappearance of the model of depth—in the analysis of the experience and the forms of post-modern time. The paper focuses on the model of existentialism, historical consciousness, the model of semiotics and their disappearance. Such three forms of ideas about time, constructed in the modern times and deconstructed in the post-modern times, indicate people" experience about time has bran-new characters in the context of consumer society, which points to a very important philosophyproposition: the end of transcendence.