Overview

Originally published in 1989, The Deconstruction of Time was the first to examine what has become the fundamental, even defining, project in continental philosophy: double rethinking. Begun by Husserl, this area of inquiry partially seeks to rethink time in terms of our experience of it; a second aspect of the project, begun by Heidegger, is an attempt to rethink our selves (and philosophy itself) in terms of the results of that initial rethinking. Using Derrida as his point of reference, Wood undertakes a critical reformulation of the project through discussions of Nietzsche, Husserl, and Heidegger. The Deconstruction of Time is a critical history of the development of the topic, but also more: it includes important contributions to the phenomenology of time (as """"cosmic,"""" """"dialectical,"""" """"phenomenal,"""" and so on) and a rereading of Derrida himself. In recent years considerations of Wood's themes have grown in import. The Deconstruction of Time is a groundbreaking study of a topic that has become vital in continental philosophy.

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Here is a fine book with a future, a posterity of readers whose time of reading will be time well spent.... We should celebrate it. - JOHN LLEWELYN, JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY This is an important book, the most important philosophical treatment of Derrida since Gasche's The Tain of the Mirror.... Wood's many essays on Derrida, written over the course of several years, have been contemporaneous with... Derrida's reception into a wider philosophical readership. - PAUL DAVIES, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

Here is a fine book with a future, a posterity of readers whose time of reading will be time well spent.... We should celebrate it. - JOHN LLEWELYN, JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY This is an important book, the most important philosophical treatment of Derrida since Gasche's The Tain of the Mirror.... Wood's many essays on Derrida, written over the course of several years, have been contemporaneous with... Derrida's reception into a wider philosophical readership. - PAUL DAVIES, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

"Here is a fine book with a future, a posterity of readers whose time of reading will be time well spent.... We should celebrate it. - JOHN LLEWELYN, JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY """"This is an important book, the most important philosophical treatment of Derrida since Gasche's The Tain of the Mirror.... Wood's many essays on Derrida, written over the course of several years, have been contemporaneous with... Derrida's reception into a wider philosophical readership."""" - PAUL DAVIES, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY"

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DAVID WOOD is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

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