David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His most recent books include The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction and Truth: A Reader (with José Medina).

"David Wood's new book is rich in provocative ideas about time. Wood draws us into his dialogues with Heidegger and Derrida as he reflects on the time of beginning, the time of repetition, and the ineluctably plural temporality of human history, artworks, living things, and the cosmos."—Richard Polt, Xavier University"Wood draws us into his dialogues with Heidegger and Derrida as he reflects on the time of beginningthe time of repetition, and the ineluctably plural temporality of human history, artworks, living things, and the cosmos."—Richard Polt, Xavier University

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Why Time Breaks Down1. Interruptions, Regressions, Discontinuities: Why Time Breaks Down2. Time-Shelters: An Essay in the Poetics of Time3. Economies of Time: Beyond Activity and PassivityPart 2. Heidegger's Struggle with Time4. Reiterating the Temporal: Toward a Rethinking of Heidegger on Time5. From Representation to Engagement6. Glimpses of Being in Dasein's Development: Reading and Writing after HeideggerPart 3. The Event of Time7. The Event of Philosophy: Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze8. Political Openings: Heidegger 1933–349. Following DerridaPart 4. Art and Time10. The Dark Side of Narrative11. Thinking Eccentrically about Time: The Strange Loops of Escher and Calvino12. Art as EventNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His most recent books include The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction and Truth: A Reader (with José Medina).

"David Wood's new book is rich in provocative ideas about time. Wood draws us into his dialogues with Heidegger and Derrida as he reflects on the time of beginning, the time of repetition, and the ineluctably plural temporality of human history, artworks, living things, and the cosmos."—Richard Polt, Xavier University"Wood draws us into his dialogues with Heidegger and Derrida as he reflects on the time of beginningthe time of repetition, and the ineluctably plural temporality of human history, artworks, living things, and the cosmos."—Richard Polt, Xavier University

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Why Time Breaks Down1. Interruptions, Regressions, Discontinuities: Why Time Breaks Down2. Time-Shelters: An Essay in the Poetics of Time3. Economies of Time: Beyond Activity and PassivityPart 2. Heidegger's Struggle with Time4. Reiterating the Temporal: Toward a Rethinking of Heidegger on Time5. From Representation to Engagement6. Glimpses of Being in Dasein's Development: Reading and Writing after HeideggerPart 3. The Event of Time7. The Event of Philosophy: Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze8. Political Openings: Heidegger 1933–349. Following DerridaPart 4. Art and Time10. The Dark Side of Narrative11. Thinking Eccentrically about Time: The Strange Loops of Escher and Calvino12. Art as EventNotesSelected BibliographyIndex