3 - Time
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Summary
The contemporary problem regarding the problem of time has a post-Kantian (or pre-Aristotelian) character. In the previous chapter, we showed how Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou all attempt to reconstruct a praxis of the contemporary as the gateway to a thought of time – and not the other way around. As such, time can no longer be thought of in a still-Kantian frame, and therefore the temporal syntheses of past, present and future must be complicated and revised, while the subject itself can no longer be considered a constitutive, ideological or active agency. This will lead us in coming chapters to a reconstruction of the problem of the event – as something that happens at once in time, to time, out of time and despite time – as an attempt to consider what an immanent genetic concept of what happens might look like shorn of transcendental unifying presuppositions. At this point, the problems of the contemporary and the event start to expose the problem of time in its relation to varieties of timelessness: eternity, pure form, perpetuity, endlessness, of course, but also their apparent others, such as the instant, the moment and the kairos.
Peregrinations
While Badiou, Deleuze and Lacan all develop decisive engagements with the category of temporality, they do so by simultaneously deepening and rupturing the main traditions of European philosophy, which is to say the various heritages of Kant, post-Kantian philosophy and phenomenology. Here, a major interlocutor proves to be G. W. F.
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- Lacan Deleuze Badiou , pp. 48 - 116Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014