Telling time : sketch of a phenomenological chrono-logy / Françoise Dastur ; translated by Edward Bullard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dastur, Françoise, 1942-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Dire le temps. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Time.

Phenomenology.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Althone Press, 2000.

Summary:

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 Hderlin's poetic thought, the book illuminates the eminently dialectical structure of speech and its essential connection with mortality.

Contents:

1 The Idea of a Phenomenological Chronology 1

The time of discourse

Logic and philosophy

The 'tempestuousness' of the sketch

2 Phenomenology and Temporality 17

Phenomenon and philosophy

Phenomenology and idealism

The invisibility of time and the phenomenology of the inapparent

3 Logic and Metaphysics 37

The onto-logy of pre-sense

The onto-logical

The voice and the world

4 The Logos of Mortals 57

Dialectic and diachrony

Logic and poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-169) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0485115204

OCLC:

41870944