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As the medium and condition of our whole sensible existence, time is not just the conscious time but also the other time, the time of the primal sensibility. Temporality signifies a mode of existence that is always intermingled with free memories and unregistered impressions, complicating and participating every present. It signifies the richness and inexhaustibility of human subjectivity. The present is already foreshadowed and undercut, as well as enriched and sustained by the participation of other time.
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Albeit an inner, non-egological manifestation, one that is radically different from what we are familiar with in the West.
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Derrida, Speech and Phenomenon, 64.
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Husserl, The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness.
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Jacques Derrida, Of Spirit, Heidegger and the Question, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989), 107.
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Alia Al-Saji, “The Memory of Another Past: Bergson, Deleuze and A New Theory of Time,” Continental Philosophy Review 37 (2004): 203–239, 209.
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For example, Derrida’s recent emphasis on the concept of “futural” time, his idea of the “messianic,” and his repeated claims of that which is “to come” in relation to democracy and justice, all seem to point to that which he deems not able to be integrated within the possibilities of a subject. The “unforeseeable and unknowable” future, therefore, becomes the mark of the boundary of the subject and defines what is outside the horizon of the subject.
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Zhao, G. (2020). Temporality and Existent. In: Subjectivity and Infinity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45590-3_9
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