Ruben Borg is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and associate editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.

"'If, as Ruben Borg masterfully shows, Joyce's ambition was to write a history of time with Finnegans Wake, it could not be a "short history of time," something like a universal history, nor even a very long and dark and tangled story about an Irish family. It would have to be an almost infinite and unimaginable experience, a radical attempt to make us relive the origins of language. With a rare blend of literary and philosophical expertise, Borg unfolds hitherto unexplored dimensions of the Wake and inscribes it definitively in a discursive tradition marked by the clash of warring brothers (like Shem and Shaun): Bruno and Vico, Bergson and Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze.' Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA"

• Abbreviations; 1. Time's Nature; 2. Time in Figures; 3. Making Time; 4. The Rhetoric of Memory; Conclusion: Technologies of Forgetting; Bibliography; Index.

Ruben Borg is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and associate editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.

"'If, as Ruben Borg masterfully shows, Joyce's ambition was to write a history of time with Finnegans Wake, it could not be a "short history of time," something like a universal history, nor even a very long and dark and tangled story about an Irish family. It would have to be an almost infinite and unimaginable experience, a radical attempt to make us relive the origins of language. With a rare blend of literary and philosophical expertise, Borg unfolds hitherto unexplored dimensions of the Wake and inscribes it definitively in a discursive tradition marked by the clash of warring brothers (like Shem and Shaun): Bruno and Vico, Bergson and Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze.' Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA"

• Abbreviations; 1. Time's Nature; 2. Time in Figures; 3. Making Time; 4. The Rhetoric of Memory; Conclusion: Technologies of Forgetting; Bibliography; Index.

Ruben Borg is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and associate editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.

"'If, as Ruben Borg masterfully shows, Joyce's ambition was to write a history of time with Finnegans Wake, it could not be a "short history of time," something like a universal history, nor even a very long and dark and tangled story about an Irish family. It would have to be an almost infinite and unimaginable experience, a radical attempt to make us relive the origins of language. With a rare blend of literary and philosophical expertise, Borg unfolds hitherto unexplored dimensions of the Wake and inscribes it definitively in a discursive tradition marked by the clash of warring brothers (like Shem and Shaun): Bruno and Vico, Bergson and Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze.' Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA"

• Abbreviations; 1. Time's Nature; 2. Time in Figures; 3. Making Time; 4. The Rhetoric of Memory; Conclusion: Technologies of Forgetting; Bibliography; Index.