Phenomenology and the Problem of Time

Michael R. Kelly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of San Diego, USA. He is editor of Bergson and Phenomenology (2010), and has published articles on the topic of time and time-consciousness in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology and American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.

“Michael Kelly offers a reconstruction of the concepts of immanence and time within the framework of Husserl’s phenomenology, followed by a critical evaluation of the reception of these concepts by three of Husserl’s most influential successors and critics: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. … this book is of potential interest to a general philosophical audience interested in the question of Husserl’s problematic relationship to modern epistemological idealism (mainly Descartes and Kant).” (Emilio Vicuña, Husserl Studies, August, 2017)

• Preface.- Introduction: New Beginnings.- Part I: Phenomenology and the Problem of Time.- 1. Time, Intentionality, and Immanence in Modern Subject Idealism.- 2. The Imperfection of Immanence in Husserl’s Phenomenology.- 3. The Living-Present: Absolute time-consciousness and Genuine Phenomenological Immanence.- Part II: The Problem of Time and Phenomenology. -  4. Transcendence: Heidegger and The Turn, the open, ‘The finitude of being … first spoken of in the book on Kant’.- 5. The Truly Transcendental: Merleau-Ponty,un Écart, ‘The Acceptance of the Truth of the Transcendental Analysis'.- Conclusion: The Ultratranscendental: Derrida and Phenomenology ‘Tormented, if not contested, from within’.