Derrida on Time

<p>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:</p><ul> <li>compares and contrasts Derrida's arguments concerning time with those Kant Husserl Augustine Heidegger Levinas Freud and Blanchot</li> <li>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</li> <li>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.</li> </ul>