Derrida on Time

Joanna Hodge

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780415430913
• eBook ISBN: 9781134085088
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Phenomenology in Philosophy

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.

Index

absolute 5, 11–12, 18–19, 21, 24–29, 33–34, 41–44, 81, 98;

abs. alterity 95, 111;

abs. consciousness 21–25, 27–28;

abs.experience 99–100;

abs. idealism 25, 109;

silence 85;

as flow (Husserl) 24, 34, 98, 107;

as passage (Derrida) 24–25, 34, 44, 71, 198, 213;

abs. past (Levinas) 34;

‘The Absolute is passage’ 44;

‘Absolute of a living Movement’ 81

affectivity x, 83–86, 187, 210

alterity 15, 31, 34, 37–38, 57, 95–96, 107, 111–12, 130, 142;

of the other 31;

‘every other is wholly other’ 34;

and auto-immunisation 37

Anaximander 14, 103, 139–40, 143, 154–55

Animal, animality 4, 6, 169, 182–89;

and Heidegger 189;

and the secret 190

Animot 6, 203

antinomies 14–15, 219n19;

Kant’s, contrasted to phenomenological 219n19

aporia/aporetics 14, 49–50, 51–53, 54, 120–25;

in The Problem of Genesis 49–50, 51–53, 54;

and the genesis of sense 49–50;

from antinomy to aporia 120–22;

‘an experience of the aporia as such’ 122

après coup (after-impact, after-shock) xi, 8, 40

apriori/apriorism 11, 49–50;

Historical aprioris 14, 31, 62

Aristotle xi, 3–5, 54;

works cited:

De Anima 3, 4, 55, 176, 215n2;

the many senses of touch 20...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• In the beginning
• Part II Interrupting Husserl
• Part III Experience and limit
• Part IV Religion without theology, theology without religion
• Part V Animal/machine
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index