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The attempt to conceive time, time's relation to human experience, and the makeup of the universe is perhaps the central problem of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. Time emerged as a central problem in late nineteenth century German philosophy where temporality became increasingly identified with consciousness and mind. Franz Brentano's work provided an impetus for Edmund Husserl's analyses of internal time-consciousness, and Wilhelm Dilthey and Husserl were both influential for Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology. In France, before these phenomenological approaches had been worked out, Henri Bergson reconceived time in a way that anticipated them and profoundly influenced later French thought....
