Time After Time

by David Wood

In Time After Time, David Wood accepts, without pessimism, the broad postmodern idea of the end of time. Wood exposes the rich, stratified, and non-linear textures of temporal complexity that characterize our world. Time includes breakdowns, repetitions, memories, and narratives that confuse a clear and open understanding of what it means to occupy time and space. In these thoughtful and powerful essays, Wood engages Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida to demonstrate how repetition can preserve sameness and how creativity can interrupt time. Wood's original thinking about time charts a course through the breakdown in our trust in history and progress and poses a daring and productive way of doing phenomenology and deconstruction.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2007

About the author

David Wood teaches Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature. He is the author of Exceedingly Nietzsche (1988) and The Provocation of Levinas (1988), editor of Writing the Future (1990), and co-editor of Philosopher's Poets (1990), all published by Routledge.

Reviews

[Tammy Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished this book early this morning. The book is about associating philosophy with the idea of time. I admit that there were sections that could become boring to an individual who is not that much into philosophy or about the idea of time. I checked out the book for that very reason. I am always fascinated by the concept of time as we believe it to be. Once I started reading, I wanted to finish the book. David Wood really takes you down a rabbit hole and gets you to think about how philosophy and time could go together. I would most likely rate this book about a 4 or 4.5. I really enjoyed reading it, and it gave me some ideas on how to look at time.