Chronopathologies

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

• Introduction: Chronopathologies: The Politics of TimePart I. Analytic Philosophy, Atemporality, and Presentism: Some Encounters Across the ChunnelChapter 1: Analytic and Continental Philosophy: A Contretemps?Chapter 2: Common Sense and Philosophical Methodology: Some Metaphilosophical Reflections on Analytic Philosophy via DeleuzeChapter 3: Negotiating the Non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the Intertwining of Political Calculation and Ultra-politicsPart II. Poststructuralism, Time Out of Joint, and Future PoliticsChapter 4: The Politics of Futurity in Derrida and DeleuzeChapter 5: Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time and the Ethic of the EventChapter 6: Deleuze's Perverse-structure: Beyond the Other-structure and the Struggle for RecognitionChapter 7: Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the "Untimely"Part III. Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Pragmatic Temporality: An Anachronistic DialogueChapter 8: Time Out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and Post-structuralismChapter 9: Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze on l'Habitude, Coping, and Trauma in Morality and Skill AcquisitionChapter 10: Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Reading of Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher.Chapter 11: Heidegger and Derrida on Being-towards-death and Philosophy's Untimely FutureConclusion: Beyond Chronopathologies

Reynolds is at the forefront of a return: the rebirth of phenomenology after successive burials by analytic philosophy, post-structuralism and naturalism. It returns, critically and controversially, through a philosophy of time setting lived time alongside contemporary scientific theories and ideas taken from Derrida and Deleuze. Reynolds has made believable phantoms of Heidegger, Levinas and, above all, Merleau-Ponty. It matters not whether you wish to dispel them or make them flesh, his book is an essential discussion of debates around time at the cross-over of different philosophical traditions.