What is time: an objective reality to be measured, or an experience shaped by consciousness?

In The Patterns of Time, Angelo Cherchi examines one of the deepest and most compelling questions in human thought through an interdisciplinary journey that interweaves philosophy, art, music, poetry, literature, memory, and perception.

The book explores the distinction between objective and subjective time, the irreversibility of becoming, the relationship between time, life, and death, and the ways in which memories, images, sounds, scents, and emotions transform our experience of the past and the present.

Drawing on the great thinkers of the philosophical tradition while engaging with contemporary culture, poetry, and the mass media, Cherchi shows that time cannot be reduced to a simple succession of hours, days, and years. Instead, it emerges as an inner, cultural, and existential dimension, capable of shaping how we perceive ourselves, the world, and the meaning of our experience.

The Patterns of Time is a philosophical and cultural essay for readers who wish to reflect on the relationship between consciousness, memory, art, and temporality, guided by questions that have always belonged to the human condition.