Contents -- Obituary -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section One Origins Explained -- Founder's Lecture: The Origin of the Integrated Study of Time -- The Search for Origins as Detective Story: Detecting Datelines and the Mystery of Origins -- On the Social Origin of Time in Language -- The Origins of Language and Narrative Temporalities -- Section Two From Future to Origin: Temporal Inversions and Asymmetries -- Narrative Fiction: Writing towards the Origin -- Origins as Futures in the Time Plays of J.B. Priestley -- Big Science: Marching Forward to the Past -- The Past-Future Asymmetry -- Section Three Futures Opened, Futures Closed -- The Human Temporal Condition between Memory and Hope -- Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat": How Self-Generation of "Pure Time" Engenders Free Choice -- Tales of Time and Terror: Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History and the Narrative Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe -- The Future of August 6th 1945: A Case of the 'Peaceful Utilization' of Nuclear Energy in Japan -- Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future -- Index.