This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Drawing on a wide array of Derrida''s texts, Joanna Hodge:

• compares and contrasts Derrida''s arguments concerning time with those Kant, Husserl, Augustine, Heidegger, Levinas, Freud, and Blanchot
• argues that Derrida''s radical understanding of time as non-linear or irregular is essential to his aim of blurring the distinction between past and present, biography and literature, philosophical and religious meditation, and the nature of the self
• explores the themes of death, touch and transcendence to argue that if considered under the theme of temporality there is more continuity to Derrida''s thought than previously considered.