ABSTRACT

Nothing is simpler nor more ubiquitous, yet simultaneously more elusive than time and space. From Aristotle through Kepler to Kant and Heidegger, it seems that no major thinker in intellectual history has not dwelt upon the puzzle of defining time and space. The texts of Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi join this sphere of intellectual discourse too. Fundamental cosmological questions such as the nature of time, the size of cosmic space, and human beings’ experience of the cosmos recur throughout their texts, albeit often in highly idiosyncratic and enigmatic expressions. Naturally we may wonder if their cosmological interest and ambiguous views on the topic relate to their anarchic, holist, and non-dualist notions of rationality and knowledge. For instance, does an anarchist and perspectival rationality point to protean and non-logical conceptions of time and space? Can a non-dualist thought that overlaps with emotions and sentience extend to experiential and organic time and space? If reason and knowledge are cosmic, does that mean that cosmological time and space can think and feel?