Is it time? It's about time. Just a moment. Any moment now. But the moment or the time in the sense I shall be discussing it has a curious and difficult relation to time in general. In English, at least, it is difficult to separate questions about time in general in all its complexity (cosmological time, psychological time, the phenomenology of internal time consciousness and so on) from questions about the time, the time that might have come, the right time, the moment as appropriate moment, not the moment as just now or as present, but as the right moment, le bon moment, the moment as kairos rather than as nun. This thought of the moment as the right moment, the moment whose moment has come, for which the time is ripe, the time whose time it is, the time that must accordingly be grasped or seized before it has gone, the time as opportunity not to be missed, is, or so it would appear, itself a thought whose time has come. The time has come to talk of many things, but among those many things the thing whose time has most come is, apparently (blame the millennium) the thought of the time's having come. And the proof of that is given among many other signs (including a flurry of recent French philosophical interest in St Paul, messianism and eschatology) by the fact of the conference for which this paper was written, which could not but invite the reflection that it had been organised at the right moment, that this indeed was the moment to talk about the moment. And it seems that any attempt to think about the moment as right or appropriate moment has to accept this reflexive paradox from the start.