This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work ofJacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of histhought. Draw... » 

This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work ofJacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of histhought. Drawing on a wide array of Derridas texts Joanna Hodgecompares and contrasts Derridas arguments concerning time with those KantHusserl Augustine Heidegger Levinas Freud and Blanchotargues that Derridas radical understanding of time as nonlinear orirregular is essential to his aim of blurring the distinction between past andpresent biography and literature philosophical and religious meditation andthe nature of the selfexplores the themes of death touch and transcendence to argue that ifconsidered under the theme of temporality there is more continuity to Derridasthought than previously considered. «