%0 Journal Article %T Rival patterns of time, narration and identity %A Zolt¨¢n Hidas %J Time & Society %@ 1461-7463 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0961463X17702166 %X The quest for one's identity has become one of the most characteristic concerns of modern man. In what follows, several ¡®rhythms of identity¡¯ will be measured by referring to the much recited historical and mythical Biblical past ¨C still influentally reaching into our own time. A threefold orientation in time can thereby be identified in an idealtypical way, each of them corresponding to a respective view of identity. Operating differences, narrated stories, existential decisions ¨C these options seem to build the frame of our self-orientation in a highly disoriented world %K Identity %K system theory %K cultural memory %K existentialism %K narrativity %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961463X17702166