'Perhaps there has been no more resilient form of thought in the last two hundred years than phenomenology, and yet, poignant critiques have been made of it. Joanna Hodge allows us to start to move beyond the horizon of phenomenology while recognizing the contributions it has made for thinking.' Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis, USA Jacques Derrida was one of the most innovative and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. in this outstanding book, Joanna Hodge explores the lasting significance of Derrida's legacy, and identifies as central to that legacy a rethinking of time. Beginning with an exploration of the theme of time and temporality in Derrida's writings, Hodge discusses the transformation of philosophy resulting from Derrida's conception of time as non-linear, most notably expressed by the term diffèrance. The author reads Derrida's writings as a response to those of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl. Hodge addresses Derrida's radical disruption of Kant's determinations of time and explores Derrida's relationship to Husserl and the question of the destiny of phenomenology. By tracing Derrida's complicated departures from and returns to phenomenology, she also illuminates his relationship to such thinkers as Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, Paul Ricoeur and Jean Luc Nancy.

As a result, Hodge argues, some of Husserl's concepts receive a decisive inflection, in Derrida's close attention to the registers and rhythms of enquiry, to Freudian analysis and to the singularity of literary register. Hodge then concludes by diagnosing in Derrida's writings a suspension of a decision between affirming a concept of history, and affirming a concept of time, emancipated from the burden of history. Derrida on Time is essential reading for students of continental philosophy and literary theory. Joanna Hodge is Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Heidegger and Ethics (Routledge 1995). Philosophy.