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.

chapter |46 pages

In the beginning

part |2 pages

Part II Interrupting Husserl

chapter 2|22 pages

2 Delay, difference, differance

part |2 pages

Part III Experience and limit: Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot

part |2 pages

Part IV Religion without theology, theology without religion

chapter 4|19 pages

1 Phenomenology as democracy to come

chapter 4|19 pages

2 ‘There is the secret’

part |2 pages

Part V Animal/machine

chapter 5|21 pages

1 Cultivating limits

chapter 5|19 pages

2 Time in the name of the other