Derrida on Time

Description

This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Drawing on a wide array of Derrida's texts, Joanna Hodge:

• compares and contrasts Derrida's arguments concerning time with those Kant, Husserl, Augustine, Heidegger, Levinas, Freud, and Blanchot
• argues that Derrida's radical understanding of time as non-linear or irregular is essential to his aim of blurring the distinction between past and present, biography and literature, philosophical and religious meditation, and the nature of the self
• explores the themes of death, touch and transcendence to argue that if considered under the theme of temporality there is more continuity to Derrida's thought than previously considered.

Contents

Part 1: In the Beginning Part 2: Interrupting Husserl Part 3: Experience and Limit: Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot Part 4: The Politics of Places Part Five: Animal/Machine: The Return of Transcendental Aesthetics as Biography

Author Bio

Joanna Hodge is Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Related Subjects

1. Continental Philosophy
2. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism
3. Phenomenology
4. Derrida