The Ethics of Time A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change

The Ethics of Time explores a rather uncharted field in philosophy, namely the ethical implications of time. It does so by utilizing the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics. On the one hand, its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, while on the other hand, it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as, Augustine's Confessions and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, among others. Nevertheless, this book makes a claim to originality, as it does not provide a commentary on any single text or thinker. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages literature, theology and the arts more generally.

The Ethics of Time takes seriously phenomenology's claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the “ethical” self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Appreviations
Introduction
Division One: Prolegomena to Any Future
Section 1. The Cosmology of Movement and the Metaphysics of Time
I. Thinking Moves: From Anaxagoras to Maximus
II. A Faith that moves Mountains: From Maximus to Kierkegaard
A. Discovering Origen in Kierkegaard's Works
B. Kierkegaard's Refutation of Origenism
C. Kierkegaard and Maximus
Section. 2. The Anthropology of Movement and the Phenomenology of Time
I. The Presence of Absence: Consciousness as Intensity Through the Analysis of Remembering
II. Time as Intensity Through the Analysis of Boredom and Waiting
III. The Eschatological Constitution of Consciousness
IV. The Three Calls of Givenness
V. The Promise of the Beautiful
VI. Perfection in Imperfection
VII. The Theological Constitution of Consciousness

Division Two: The Scandal of the Good
PART ONE: The First Garden: Being at the Beginning
Chapter One
I. In the Beginning: the Unconditional and the Uncreated
II. On the Phenomenology of Creation
III. The Distraction and Attraction of Time
Chapter Two
I. Between the Beginning and the End
II. Between God and Not God
III. Original Sin as the Refusal of the Origin
Chapter Three
I. From Eden to Thebes: An Excursion to Greek Tragedy
II. Evil's Refusal of the Temporal
III. After Evil: the Good

PART TWO. The Second Garden: Being Divided
Chapter Four
I. Time and Narrative in Regione Dissimiltudinis
II. The Divided Self: Philosophical Considerations
III. The Divided Self: Theological Considerations
Chapter Five
I. The Theater of Self-Deception: Curiosity, Narcissism, and Melancholy
II. The Time of the Body: Hunger, Eating, Sex
Chapter Six
I. The Return of the Manichean Hypothesis: Levinas's Radical Alterity and Lacan's Ethics of Desire
II. Radical Alterity and Radical Evil
III. The Ethics of Desire
IV. The Real God and the God of the Real
V. God in the Cinema: On the Christology of Dogville

PART THREE. The Third Garden: Final Being
Chapter Seven
I. An Undying Death: The Self in Hell
II. The Second Death
III.The Forgotten Body: Resurrection and the Return to the Beginning
Chapter Eight
I. Eschatology: With or Without the Body?
II. Sarx: The Flesh of the Soul
III. The Flesh in the Place of das Ding
IV. Metaphors of Death and Resurrection: the Pouring Jug, the Broken Jar, and the Eucharistic Chalice.

Epilogue:
I. Three Scandals (in the manner of Dostoyevsky)

Bibliography
Index

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