Hourglass Dawns: The becoming of time as space, contemporary post-phenomenological philosophy

Full title: Hourglass Dawns: The becoming of time as space, contemporary post-phenomenological philosophy and its nemesis of time in the work of Agamben, Nancy and Jameson

Time, since Kant, has troubled Continental philosophy right through to Husserl and past his project of Phenomenology expressed and thus terminated in the works of Heidegger and Derrida who have left traces of messianism, nihilism, and apparitions of 'timeless' time. In the aftermath of Derrida, the analysis of time in Continental philosophy has taken two paths which possess political agendas depending on their traditions of thought. Firstly, the first kind of the treatment of time deals with a post-phenomenological approach insomuch as reducing experiences of time to lived existences of things which attempt to deny the possibility of conceiving of a metaphysical account of time outside a purely lived experience. Secondly, the latter approach exists as a form of post-Marxist analysis that critiques the post-phenomenological tradition insomuch as it clings onto a narrative of time that permits a multiplicity of time in homogeneous spaces, but alongside the work of Fredric Jameson, he proposes time has become frozen not in terms of Benjamin's hypothesis of the Paris Arcades, but that in time becoming frozen, becomes space. Thus, this paper shall take account of contemporary developments in Continental philosophy analysing time in the works of Jean-Luc Nancy, Fredric Jameson, and Giorgio Agamben.

Jack Robert Coopey

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