Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time

By: Jay Lampert

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Hardcover | 9 February 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Through

original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of

simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of

time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

In

the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl (following Einstein)

made Simultaneity-what it means for events to occur at the same time-a central

motif in philosophy.In the late 20th

Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events staggered over

distant times.This struggle between

convergent and staggered time also plays out in 20th Century

aesthetics (especially music), politics, and the sciences.

Despite their importance in the history of

philosophy, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the concepts of

simultaneity and delay.By putting

simultaneity and delay into a dialectical relation, this book argues that time

in general is organized by elastic rhythms. Lampert's concepts describe the

time-structures of such diverse phenomena as atonal music, political

decision-making, neuronal delays, leaps of memory and the boredom of waiting;

and simultaneities and delays in everyday experience and behaviour.

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