
Telling Time
Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology
Francoise Dastur(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Hardback
194 pages
978-0-485-11520-8 (ISBN)
Description
Telling Time takes up Heidegger's ideas of a "phenomenological chronology" in an attempt to pose the question of the possibility of a phenomenological language that would be given over to the "temporality of being" and the finitude of existence. The book combines a discussion of approaches to language in the philosophical tradition with readings of Husserl on temporality and the early and late texts of Heidegger's on logic, truth and the nature of language. As well as Heidegger's "deconstruction" of logic and metaphysics Dastur's work is informed by Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence and Nietzschean genealogy. Appealing as much to Humboldt's philosophy of language as to H
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-485-11520-8 (9780485115208)
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Persons
Francoise Dastur
Author
Translation
Faculty of Contonuing Education, Birbeck College, University of London
Content
The idea of phenomenological chrono-logy; phenomenology and temporality; logic and metaphysics; the logos of mortals.