The Ethics of Time

The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting memory and the body are carried out phenomenologically as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as Augustine''s Confessions and Sophocles''s Oedipus Rex among others. The Ethics of Time takes seriously phenomenology''s claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the ethical self or rather for the ways in which such a self informed by time might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour this book engages knowledgeably and deftly with subjects across literature theology and the arts and will be of interest to scholars throughout these disciplines.