Introduction: A Critical-Historical Palette of Temporal Horizons

The critical-historical trajectory of the Excursus I has progressively destabilized the apparent self-evidence of:

1. Cosmic time through the inward extension of the soul — Augustine.
2. Homogeneous sequential time through consciousness and lived duration — Husserl & Bergson.
3. Absolute physical time through relational and emergent cosmology — Einstein, Rovelli, Hertog & Falcke.
4. Disembodied metric time through lived corporeality, memory and relational alterity — Proust, Cixous & Irigaray.
5. Time as an operationally available resource through existential temporality and technical mobilization — Heidegger & Jünger.

Cosmic => Sequential => Absolute => Disembodied => Operationally Available Time