Part I. Phenomenology and the problem of time -- Time, intentionality, and immanence in modern idealism -- The imperfection of immanence in Husserl's phenomenology -- The living-present: absolute time-consciousness and genuine phenomenological immanence -- Part II. The problem of time and phenomenology -- Transcendence: Heidegger and the turn, the open, "the finitude of being ... first spoken of in the book on Kant" -- The truly transcendental: Merleau-Ponty, un ?Ecart, "the acceptance of the truth on the transcendental analysis" -- Conclusion: the ultratranscendental - Derrida, Phenomenology, and "the breath in intentional animation which transforms the body of the word into flesh."
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This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for evaluating both Husserl's efforts to break free of modern philosophy's notions of immanence and the influence Heidegger's criticism of Husserl exercised over Merleau-Ponty's and Derrida's alternatives to Husserl's phenomenology. Ultimately exploring various notions of intentionality, these in-depth analyses of immanence and temporality suggest a new perspective on themes central to phenomenology's development as a movement and raise for debate the question of where phenomenology begins and ends--Source other than Library of Congress.