Derrida and Husserl on Time

Luke Fischer

Derrida and Husserl on Time

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12/2 - Fall 2007, pages 345-357

Date of online publication: 15 novembre 2007

Date of publication: 01 novembre 2007

Abstract

In this essay I take issue with Derrida's interpretation of Husserl's phenomenology of internal time-consciousness in Speech and Phenomena. Derrida's critique of Husserl's phenomenology of time also forms the basis for what Derrida regards to be an undermining of phenomenological philosophy itself. After first disagreeing with Derrida's interpretation of Husserl's understanding of time I proceed to object to his “undermining” of phenomenology. I attempt to illustrate that his critique of phenomenology is unconvincing.

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Fischer, Luke. “Derrida and Husserl on Time.” Forum Philosophicum 12, no. 2 (2007): 345–57. doi:10.35765/forphil.2007.1202.26.

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