Time and Political Philosophy

Perhaps the best evidence of the contemporary de-centralizing globalization of the human race is a factor that transcends doctrinal differences--Time.  Of course, societies have always been organized according to natural rhythms, primarily days and seasons.  But, Time has never been as standardized, both macro- and nano-cosmically, as it currently is.  For example, a delay of only a few seconds can be costly to an investor in New York playing the Hong Kong market.  Now, because in recent centuries, the Philosophical interest in Temporality has tended to focus on either personal experience, e. g. Kant, Bergson, and Heidegger, or History, e. g. Hegel, its significance to Political Philosophy has usually been no more than implicit.  Notable in that regard is Heidegger, whose hostility towards "everydayness", codified in his Being-beings duality, blinds him to the possibility that what he denigrates as 'ontic' Time can, rather, have Ontological import.