ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |46 pages
In the beginning
part |2 pages
Part II Interrupting Husserl
chapter |18 pages
1 The sense of genesis and the genesis of sense
chapter |22 pages
2 Delay, difference, differance
part |2 pages
Part III Experience and limit: Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot
chapter |22 pages
1 ‘A time that has always already run out’
chapter |20 pages
2 Literature, in the place of religion
part |2 pages
Part IV Religion without theology, theology without religion
chapter |19 pages
1 Phenomenology as democracy to come
chapter |19 pages
2 ‘There is the secret’
part |2 pages
Part V Animal/machine