Catching up with Time

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as nonsynchronous and anti-chronological. The range of media (philosophical essays, film, plays, novels, autobiographical narratives) and periods (medieval, early modern, contemporary) explored here testify to the enduring significance of so-called «delays» and the need to rethink these as anachronies. The spectral presence of the notion of «Kairos» throughout this volume connects different attempts to subvert linear time, on occasion allowing events and temporalities to coexist and compete or, alternately, asking the mind to stretch itself and experience the uneasiness of time by attempting and failing to encompass diverse spaces and temporalities concomitantly. The resulting essays interrogate, test and contest the limits of the possible and enable a rethinking of what time could represent across disciplines and genres.

Contents: Chiara Collamati: À temps, c est-à-dire tard. L hystérésis comme outil d intelligibilité dialectique chez Sartre Domenico Cambria: La lecture est le retard de l écriture. Interprétations autour de Roger Laporte, de Jacques Derrida et d Edmond Jabès Lili Owen Rowlands: When the self arrives late, or Didier Eribon s autotheoretical (re)turn Alice Laumier: Mémoire de fille d Annie Ernaux: différer l écriture, s attarder sur l événement Diane Otosaka: Dissonances, retard et temps non-chronologique dans HHhH de Laurent Binet Michael Grace: «Se trouver en deux temps à la fois»: Malabou s and Marker s plastic images Sky Herington: «L éternel recommencement»: From infernal cycles to subversive spirals in Sony Labou Tansi s Conscience de tracteur (and beyond) Sana Abdi: Al-ghurbah ou l exil occidental comme pratique moderne du soufisme chez Abdelwahab Meddeb Rebecca Courtier: Reading «in-between» the lines of La Fille du comte de Pontieu and Peau noire, masques blancs.