Chronopathologies Time and Politics in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy, and Phenomenology

by Reynolds, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780739132814
• ISBN10: 0739132814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-08
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

A battle over the politics (and philosophy) of time is a major part of what is at stake in the differences between three competing currents of contemporary philosophy: analytic philosophy, post-structuralist philosophy, and phenomenological philosophy. Avowed or tacit philosophies of time define representatives of each of these groups and also guard against their potential interlocutors. However, by bringing the temporal differences between these philosophical trajectories to the fore, and showing both their methodological presuppositions and their ethico-political implications, this book begins a long overdue dialogue on their respective strengths and weaknesses. It argues that there are systemic temporal problems (chronopathologies) that afflict each, but especially the post-structuralist tradition (focusing on Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida and their prophetic future politics) and the analytic tradition (focusing on John Rawls and philosophical methodology in general, particularly the tendency to oscillate between forms of atemporality and intuition-oriented '¬Spresentism'¬). What is required is a '¬Smiddle-way'¬ that does not treat the living-present and the pragmatic temporality associated with bodily coping as an epiphenomenon to be explained away as either a transcendental illusion (and as a reactive force that is ethically problematic), or as a subjective/psychological experience that is not ultimately real.

Author Biography

Jack Reynolds is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at LaTrobe University.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Politics of Time	p. 1
Analytic Philosophy, Atemporality, and Presentism: Some Encounters across the Chunnel	p. 15
Analytic and Continental Philosophy: A Contretemps!	p. 17
Common Sense and Philosophical Methodology: Some Metaphilosophical Reflections on Analytic Philosophy via Deleuze	p. 35
Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the Intertwining of Political Calculation and Ultra-Politics	p. 61
Poststructuralism, Time Out of Joint, and Future Politics	p. 85
The Politics of Futurity in Derrida and Deleuze	p. 87
Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time and the Ethics of the Event	p. 107
Deleuze on the Perverse-Structure: Beyond the Other-Structure and the Struggle for Recognition	p. 127
Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the "Untimely"	p. 147
Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Pragmatic Temporality: An Anachronistic Dialogue	p. 161
Time Out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and Poststructualism	p. 163
Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze on I'habitude, Coping, and Trauma in Morality and Skill Acquisition	p. 179
Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Engagement with Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher.	p. 197
Heidegger and Derrida on Being-towards-death and Philosophy's Untimely Future	p. 213
Conclusion: Beyond Chronopathologies	p. 225
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 277
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